sub header { my $self = shift; my $cgi = $self->{_SESSION_OBJ}; unless ( defined $cgi ) { require CGI; $self->{_SESSION_OBJ} = CGI->new(); return $self->header(); } my $cookie = $cgi->cookie($self->name(), $self->id() ); return $cgi->header( -type => 'text/html', -cookie => $cookie, @_ ); } #### 1222c1222 < return $self->header(); --- > $cgi = $self->{_SESSION_OBJ}; #### # call header to instantiate CGI object, but throw away the result $sess->header(); # _now_ print the header print $sess->header(expires => '+1M'); __END__ output: Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=e438a0cb3647f362bd9934d048dca443; path=/ Expires: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:52:43 GMT Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:42:43 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1