CGI redirect code??

[jwoods38]

Hi everyone, I'm relatively new to Perl and CGI but I'm working on a Perl CGI script at the end of which I want to redirect the user to a new html page. Is there a function to do this. I know it's probably a really newbie question but I'd appreciate any help! Thanks in advance.

 

[kevinpham]

Hi
use this:

print "Location:your-redirect-url\n\n";

make sure you have \n\n at the end or it will says invalid header


cheer
kevin

 

[missbarbell]

I think the following is what you're after is something along the lines of:

****

use CGI;
my $query = new CGI();
print $query -> redirect(-location => "myCGI.cgi", -nph => 1);


****


HTH,
Barbie.
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org

 

[kevinpham]

Hi Missbarbell,
your line is just equivalent to my code... the internal working of the CGI.PM will use my code, and nph->1 just tell the server not to parse the header... so why waste time initilize the variables of the CGI object?

cheer
kevin

 

[jwoods38]

Hey guys thanks,
They both work normally, however for my page to display html I have to use the line Content-type: text/html and this prints everything in HTML. Is there a way to turn this printing in HTML off? Thanks again.

 

[kevinpham]

well,
you can set the header to something else depend on what you want to print.. here is a shortlist

text/plain: Plain text.
text/html : HTML files.
text/richtext: Rich Text Format.
image/gif : GIF images
image/jpeg : JPEG images
image/x-xbitmap X bitmap is a very simple pixel-by-pixel description of images.
audio/basic: Basic 8-bit, ulaw compressed audio files.
audio/x-wav: Microsoft Windows audio format.
video/mpeg: MPEG compressed video.
video/quicktime: Quicktime video.
video/x-msvideo: Microsoft Video. Usually ends with the extension .avi.
application/octet-stream
application/postscript: Postscript files.

I believe there are some more but i don't remember
cheer
kevin

 

[missbarbell]

For a full list of mime types, on a *nix system have a look for the file mime.types, usually under /etc. Though there are sites online which list them too.

Barbie Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org

 

[jwoods38]

Thanks a lot everyone!