2011/5/5 Geospectrum <alan.hunt...@geospectrum.co.uk>:
> Hi,
>
> I am putting together a simple website and would like visitors to be
> able to type a number into a form (say 1234) and a perl script should
> run open an existing page called .../1234.html or generate an error
> page if the use enters a wrong number. I will have already uploaded
> the page before a user enters the number so the per script can open it
> rather than generate a new one (unless it can be generated on the fly
> which may be better?)
>
That's easy by returnning a redirection.
For example,
use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new;
my $page = $q->param("page_number");
print $q->redirect("/$page.html");
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