Subject: | redirect() docs should clarify that most headers, including cookies, are ignored. |
These docs should be added to the docs for the redirect() header:
All names arguments recognized by header() are also recognized by
redirect(). However, most HTTP headers, including those generated by
cookie and -target, are ignored by the browser.
That tip is from:
Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm
Lincoln Stein
Wiley
1998
P 225
This some CGI::Application / CGI::Session users were bitten by this, and
a bug report related to it has already been filed for CGI::Session:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40751