in reply to Cannot get httponly to work
If you are using perl 5.8.8 it is because you probably also have CGI.pm-3.15 installed.
Support for httponly cookies was not added until CGI.pm-3.21.
You can get CGI.pm-3.40 in perl 5.8.9, or update to the current version as well CGI.
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