cgi->redirection

[Archon]

I'm trying to issue a redirect that forces users to a location to download a file. The location of the file will not change, just in a

http://.../temp.txt

type thing. Just to get the redirection working first, I tried using:

print $cgi->redirect("http:// .. /temp.txt"

but all this does is print:
Status: 302 Moved Location: http:// .. /temp.txt
on the .html page.

It prints the correct url, but the print statement is all I get. No redirection takes place.

What am I missing?
Thanks

 

[Archon]

More specifically, I'd like to redirect on the click of a button or hypertext, so I could allow time to download the file, then delete it/kill the process.

Any ideas on how to set up the redirect to work onclick?

Thanks again

 

[stillflame]

to make sure, are you printing any sort of header with the redirecting script except the redirect one? redirection is controlled in the header of a page, so it needs to be the first thing sent to the browser. also - what web-server/browser combo were you using? that might have something to do with it (IE expects redirect to be used like:[tt]
print $query->redirect(-uri=>'

http://somewhere.else/in/movie/land'

-nph=>1);[/tt]
(taken from the perldoc entry for CGI))

HTH "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try spending a night in a closed tent with a mosquito."

 

[tsdragon]

This is one of those cases where using a library module is actually more complicated than just doing it yourself. The easiest way to do a redirect is simply:

print "Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.somewhere.com\n\n";[/URL]

Make sure there are TWO \n at the end. Also, like stillflame said, do not print anything else before you print this.
Tracy Dryden
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