RE: page displayed from CGI script

Hi Shawn,

It could be a missing space after Location: that is causing the problem.
>From the "Perl Cookbook" (O'Reilly & Associates)

  19.8. Redirecting to a Different Location
  Problem
  You need to tell the client's browser to look elsewhere for a page.

  Solution
  Instead of a normal header, just issue a location redirect and exit.
  Don't forget the extra newline at the end of the header.

  $url = "http://www.perl.com/CPAN/";
  print "Location: $url\n\n";
  exit;

this should work.

HTH,
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
[mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]On Behalf Of Shawn Sass
Sent: August 30, 2001 10:21 AM
To: hwg techniques
Subject: page displayed from CGI script


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

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