i added #!/usr/bin/perl to the top of your program, ran it on my test server and it worked just fine

in firefox, click tools->web developer->network. paste the address of your page into the address bar and press enter. In the lower part of the screen make sure the all tab is selected and click on the line with status 200. the lower half splits into two panes, the right side should have the tab headers hilighted. look for set-cookie in red, and see what is next to it.

if you see  Set-Cookie: "pass=xxxx; path=/; expires=Tue, 27-Jun-2017 08:19:23 GMT" then the cookie is getting sent, and any reason it is not used by the browser is not the fault of perl but the browser.

If you dont see any "set-cookie" line then i suggest you are not running right file on the server. add this to the bottom of your program print 'hi there'; and copy the file to your cgi directory again. now go to your page with the network section still showing, it should now show "hi there" on the top of the screen. If it does not you are not putting your program in the right place. if it does, click on the stats 200 line again, and look on the right under the headers tab for the set-cookie header.

Hi Huck, Thank you for your input. The line !/usr/bin/perl always there in my code except that i accidentally didn't put on the forum. I have just managed to work with one additional change and its started to work. As i have multiple print statement in the code as in I am setting the cookie and then redirect the user to the url. It either redirects or writes the cookie. though, i have found work around to it , I am not sure whether that is the right way to do it. My code after the cookies started working.

use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
my $returnurl;
my $pass=$q->cookie('pass');
my $JsessCookie = $q->cookie(-name=>$pass, -value=>'', -path=>'/', -ex
+pires=>'-1h');
my $tempcookie = $q->cookie(-name=>'tempc', -value=>'', -path=>'/');
my $url="https://test.com/return=$returnurl";
#tried the below but doesn't redirect <b>shows 302 status</b>

#print $q->redirect(-cookie=>[$JsessCookie,$tempcookie],-uri=>$url);
#<b>this is the working redirection code- but not sure whether its the
+ right way forward</b>

print $q->header(-cookie=>[$JsessCookie,$tempcookie]);
print qq~<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=$url">\n;
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Many Thanks for all your help so far