As name is the only required attribute on Set-Cookie I see no problem with your code (except that you have a lowercase "cookie" instead of the correct uppercase "Cookie" in "Set-Cookie"). For more info:

• http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
• http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/
• CGI

For Perl CGIs I strongly recommend using CGI. Creating Cookies is easy then (along with other thingies):

use CGI;
$query = CGI->new;
$cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>'sessionID',
                         -value=>'xyzzy',
                         -expires=>'+1h',
                         -path=>'/cgi-bin/database',
                         -domain=>'.capricorn.org',
                         -secure=>1);
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie);
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alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de>
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