cookie specs. - put on my cookie page in mikes_crazy_life.tripod.com/cgi-bin/cookies.html http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wininet/wininet/http_cookies.asp http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/lib/CGI/Cookie.html http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/lib/CGI/Cookie.html http://www.webmasterworld.com/login.cgi?status=Either%20we%20require%20login%20from%20users%20from%20your%20ISP%20because%20of%20abuse,%20or%20the%20thread%20is%20marked%20members%20only.%20Please%20login%20and%20then%20back%20up%20to%20view . use this meta to put the cookie on the web page as opposed to in the header information <meta http-equiv="set-cookie" content="cookievalue=xxx;expires=friday, 31-dec 99 23:59:59 gmt; path=/;">