Perl script pops up new unwanted Browser window

[cosports]

AAAgggg!!!
I cant figure out why this is happening.
I have a cgi script written in perl.
It has a Form that when submitted, populates
a database. After that it crates a "thank you" page.
For no apparent reason it opens a new browser window
for the thank you page instead of refreshing the
form page. How do you keep everything in one
browser window?
Thanks
Eric

 

[tanderso]

Do you print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" before anything else in your thank you page? Do you have a target="" in your form?
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[cosports]

I beleive the answer is yes to the first question.
I'm using cgi_pm: $q->header;

And as for the form I'm not using a specific target,
On submit i call $script_url/insert.

I'm using SWITCH statements with the form:
if newForm then call Sub...
if insert then call Sub...


$script_url/newForm ##This creates the form
$script_url/insert ##This does the insert and prints
"Thank you".
-eric

 

[tanderso]

I'm not too familiar with cgi_pm, so your problem is probably in there somewhere. Try just printing your form, ie:

print qq~<form><input><input></form>~;

It shouldn't open a new window by default. I'm sure its the way you are calling cgi_pm functions.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[luciddream]

hmm, i've never had this problem before, it might be an html problem before you submit form. do you have a target in your form tag? can you post your code for the page that calls the script? adam@aauser.com

 

[cosports]

thanks tom and adam.
I had a target specified that should not have been there.
(I don't remember even putting it there :,) )
Once i removed the target the program worked great.
The forums have done it again..
-eric