Passing a Hyper Link in CGI

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April 29th, 2008, 05:49 AM

Rakesh_1984

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Passing a Hyper Link in CGI

Hi,

I started with CGI and face a very basic problem...
I have a .html in which Iam calling a .cgi file and after this if it enters the below If loop It needs to go to the next page but it is not happening..

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
sleep(1);
if(-s "test.pl")
{
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;url=http://localhost/~user/check.html">
}

Missed something here, can anyone help me out..

Thanks

April 29th, 2008, 08:03 AM

cowboyroy

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you might need to let it know that its html that you are using
try (inside your curly brackets)

perl Code:

Original - perl Code
print <<end_html; <html> <head> Your redirect stuff here </head> <body </body> </html> end_html

print <<end_html;
<html>
<head>
Your redirect stuff here
</head>
<body
</body>
</html>
end_html

I imagine you can get rid of the body section, but you might want it to say something while its waiting to redirect.
And i think the redirect statement needs to be in the head.

April 29th, 2008, 10:25 AM

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you need to print the HTML.

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
sleep(1);
if(-s "test.pl")
{
print qq{<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;url=http://localhost/~user/check.html">}
}

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