Re: sending a file back to user with perl.

At 12:54 PM 5/10/2001 +1200, peter newton wrote:
>Hello All,
>
> From within a perl script I need to return 1 of 2 existing html files back
>to the user. I cannot remember how to do this, I'm sure its a 1 liner using
>the ` character. Can anyone help??
>
>Many Thanks
>Peter Newton

Living up to its reputation as the Swiss army chain saw of languages, Perl 
offers about a million different ways to do it, but you're probably 
thinking of a redirect:

print "Location: $url\n\n";

It's an http header, so make sure you use _two_ newlines at the end.

Jason K. Chapman

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