Re: page displayed from CGI script

#  set the redirect url
$redirect = "http://www.someplace.com/apage/calledthis.htm";
$|=1;            # Flush buffer and send output immediately to webserver.
print "Location: $redirect\nURI: $redirect\n\n" ;      # print the location

Should do it.

Paul Roberts

roberts_paul(at)bigfoot.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin H." <justinh(at)whidbey.net>
To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: page displayed from CGI script


| Shawn Sass wrote:
| >
| > Hello list,
| >
| > Could someone please tell me how to return a page at a certain url
through a
| > cgi script?  I've tried
| >
| > print "Location:http://www.someplace.com/apage/calledthis.htm\n\n";
| >
| > and
| >
| > print "http://www.someplace.com/apage/calledthis.htm\n\n";
| >
| > With no success.  I don't know how to tell it to go somewhere.
| >
| > I've also searched perl.com for some hint of how to accomplish this but
had
| > no success, although I did find some cool pre-made cgi scripts but they
do
| > me no good right now.  I really don't want to just print out all the
html of
| > the whole darned page that I want to return from within the script if I
| > don't have to.
| >
| > Any suggestions are appreciated,
| > TIA
|
| You could always send a meta refresh with a 0 second refresh time.  I'm
| sure there's something more elegant, but that should work fine.
|
| Justin H.
| --
| "I'm someone who has a deep emotional attachment to Starsky and Hutch."
|  -Bill Clinton, at a meeting with television honchos
|

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