envoke a url from inside perl (HELP)

im trying to envoke a url from inside perl any ideas how like this sorta would be great

my $url = 'http://www.yahoo.com';

callurl($url);#sub to call the url

&callurl{
# what do i put into here?? HELP!!!!

}


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thanks for any help u can give in advance

>>&callurl{
This should be "sub callurl {"

>>callurl($url);
This should be "&callurl($url);"

>># what do i put into here?? HELP!!!!

It depends on what you really want to do. If you can provide that, we may have a clue.

im trying to start a page from inside perl ..call it ...
heres what im trying to do i have a regisration cgi i did and the last part is to goto a page (url) when its all done when the user is aproved and i cant get it to goto the page from inside perl with out a link (pressed link) i want perl (the cgi) to go there by its self from inside the cgi..

id like to make it sorta like a function so i can call it as a routine insert the saved varible as url and send it on its merry way..

thanks
pern


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by freebsd:
>>&callurl{
This should be "sub callurl {"

>>callurl($url);
This should be "&callurl($url);"

>># what do i put into here?? HELP!!!!

It depends on what you really want to do. If you can provide that, we may have a clue.[/quote]



[This message has been edited by Pern (edited October 28, 2000).]

Hi!

I guess you can do that with this function:

$url="http://www.altavista.com";
print "Location: $url nn";

(whitout a header like 'print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";')

Otherwise you can let PERL return a javascript that redirects the user to the new page:

print "<script language="JavaScript">";
print " window.location="http://www.altavista.com";";
print "</script>";

// udd

thanks ill try that ad keep u posted..
hope this works i have it working sorta now but only local pages i need a page off the server for the completion...
thanks fo all ur help i bow to thee kind sir

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by udd:
Hi!

I guess you can do that with this function:

$url="http://www.altavista.com";
print "Location: $url nn";

(whitout a header like 'print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";')

Otherwise you can let PERL return a javascript that redirects the user to the new page:

print "<script language="JavaScript">";
print " window.location="http://www.altavista.com";";
print "</script>";

// udd[/quote]

>>when its all done when the user is aproved and i cant get it to goto the page from inside perl with out a link

Just use the "print "Location: $url nn";" as ubb mentioned.

If you want the output to show the input data of that user, then simply:
print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";
print "Hello $username,n";
print "You have entered the following data:n:";
print "Age: $agen";
print "country: $countryn";