max-age attribute not working, How do you make a cookie expire? Options

[jmrathbun]

I'm trying to set a cookie that will expire in 24 hours. I've tried

CODE

Set-Cookie: score=10; path=/; expires=time()+86400

and I've tried

CODE

Set-Cookie: score=10; path=/; max-age=86400

both on Unix and on Windows servers, but in every case I get a session cookie only.

What's wrong?

[jmrathbun]

Sorry to be so unclear. According to various online sources, this code goes at the top of the html document and it executes as expected (leaving a cookie) except the cookie expires at the end of the browser session instead of 24 hours later as the code indicates it should. Here's the whole script:

CODE

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
my $cgi=new CGI;
use diagnostics;

print "Set-Cookie: topic=Consciousness; path=/; expires=time()+86400\n";
print "Set-Cookie: score=10; path=/; max-age=86400\n";
print "Set-Cookie: smarts=20; path=/; expires=time()+86400\n";
print "Set-Cookie: playlevel=30; path=/; max-age=86400\n";
print $cgi->header;
print $cgi->start_html('Set Cookie');
print $cgi->h1('The cookie has been set!');
print $cgi->end_html;