URL Redirect (header already there)

[packetstormer]

Hello,

I have a simple page that has some conditional statements on it. What I want to do is, if a certain condition is true I want to redirect to another page. The trouble is, in order to do this I need to print the header first. Once I print the header the redirect code :print $query->redirect('http://www.mysite.com') doesn't work. Instead it just prints the usual "302 found location"

Does anyone know how to write this? If I remove the header the page doesn't load in the browser!

[Fletch]

You answered your own question if you just think about it: printing the redirect after the header doesn't work, so you need to determine what you want to do first then print the corresponding response (normal headers or a redirect). You also might want to take a look at something like CGI::Application which provides a more structured approach that aides in separating presentation and logic.

[wind]

Simply move the logic the determines you need to redirect before you output your regular header and page body.