"Richard A. Evans" wrote:
>
> > I have a script named redirect.pl that has the following line of code
>
> > print $co->redirect('/new_page.html');
>
> > The script redirects to the appropriate page. However, the URL that
> appears
> > at the browsers address bar remains /cgi-bin/redirect.pl . How can I
> force
> > the address location to change as well?
>
> I use a script like this and it works fine:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -T
> use CGI;
> $q = new CGI;
> print $q->header(
> -type => "text/html",
> -expires => "-1d",
> -location => $q->param('redir')
> );
>
> Run the script as redirect.pl?redir=http://www.whereyouwanttogo.com
>
> I left out any error checking on the redir parameter as I assume I will
> always used the script correctly.
This works equally well for me:
print "Location: http://www.xyz.com/\n\n";;
May depend on your server/browser somewhat.
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