cookie
for ways of setting and retrieving cooked cookies.
NOTE: The Microsoft Internet Information Server is broken with respect to additional path information. If you use the Perl DLL library, the IIS server will attempt to execute the additional path information as a Perl script. If you use the ordinary file associations mapping, the path information will be present in the environment, but incorrect. The best thing to do is to avoid using additional path information in CGI scripts destined for use with IIS.
path_info
but returns the additional path information
translated into a physical path, e.g.
``/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/additional/stuff''.
The Microsoft IIS is broken with respect to the translated path as well.