I'm trying to store cookies but its not working with the code I have. Do anyone see any errors?
<!c11ex4.html>
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Maribeth Designs</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Select a Background Color</H1>
<FORM ACTION="http://servername.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/c11/c11ex4a.cgi" METHOD=GET>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=Color VALUE=hotpink>Pink<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=Color VALUE=silver>Silver<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=Color VALUE=tan>Tan<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=Color VALUE=white>White<BR>
</P>
<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Color Choice">
</FORM></BODY></HTML>
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#!/user/bin/perl
#c11ex4a.cgi - first script
use CGI qw(:standard);
#prevent Perl from creating undeclared variables
use strict;
#declare and assign value to variable
my ($color, $C_color);
$color = cookie('Color');
#create and send cookie
$C_color = cookie(-name => "Color",
-value => "$color";
-path => "/cgi-bin/c11");
print header(-cookie => $C_color);
#create Web page
print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD><TITLE>Maribeth Designs</TITLE></HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY BGCOLOR=$color>\n";
print "<HR>\n";
print "<FORM ACTION='http://servername.netfirms.com/cgi-bin/c11/c11ex4b.cgi' METHOD=POST>\n";
print "<H1>Maribeth Designs</H1>\n";
print "<I>Welcome to our Web site!</I><BR><BR><BR>\n";
print "<INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE='Go to Next Page'>\n";
print "</FORM>\n";
print "</BODY></HTML>\n";
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#!/user/bin/perl
#c11ex4b.cgi - second script
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
use CGI qw(:standard);
#prevent Perl from creating undeclared variables
use strict;
#declare variable
my $color;
#assign value to variable and retrieve Color cookie
$color = cookie('Color');
#create Web page
print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD><TITLE>Maribeth Designs</TITLE></HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY BGCOLOR=$color>\n";
print "<HR>";
print "<H1>Maribeth Designs</H1>\n";
print "<I>Thank you for visiting our Web site!</I>\n";
print "</BODY></HTML>\n";
2 Sep, 2008 - 11:35 PM
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