Location doesn't work on MAC

[Anonymous Monk]

I use Location to redirect. It doesn't work on MAC. What's the problem and how to solve it? Thanks a lot.

[sachmet]

Do you have a code sample you could show?

Generally, it should just be:

print qq#Location: $newlocation\n\n#;
exit(0);

and that should work. I've never had a problem handing that off to people using Macs...

The other thing you could try is sending back a HTML document with a meta-refresh tag, and a link in case the refresh doesn't occur.

[merlyn]

The other thing you could try is sending back a HTML document with a meta-refresh tag, and a link in case the refresh doesn't occur.

No. Please don't. It kills the use of my "back" button, because I press back, it goes to the meta-refresh doc, and then refreshes forward again.

If you can at all generate headers, the headers method is much preferred.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[Falkkin]

While I agree with merlyn (i.e. don't use the meta-refresh tag), at least specify that the page is to redirect after 5 seconds. This should give plenty of time to hit the back button twice. I don't remember the specific syntax for this but i believe the tag would look like this:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5;http://url-goes-here">

[converter]

Fist, some (hopefully) constructive criticism of your post:

• It's usually a good idea to include example code to demonstrate how you're attempting to do something. If there's a flaw in your methods we can tell you how to correct them.
• It's also a good idea to explain how something is not working. Often, something that is described as "not working" is just not working like you expected it to.

Since you didn't explain the how, I'll assume that you're just printing the Location header. This may work fine with some browsers, but if I remember correctly, the standard is to include a Status: 302 msg, and some browsers may not handle a Location header without the status message (this is from foggy memory).

You should be using CGI to parse queries and handle headers. Here's an example of the output of CGI's redirect() method:

$ perl -MCGI=:standard -e 'print redirect("http://foo")'
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
Status: 302 Moved
Location: http://foo

To do this in your program:

use CGI qw/:standard/;
print redirect("http://foo");

Hope this helps.

Update:

Minor correction (...without the status message)

[Asim]

I could use a lot more information here. Which browser (including version number) are you using? Does it work on PC-based browsers? Are you getting an error? Where are you trying to go? And you certain you're using the correct header style (HINT: it's much easier to do this with CGI.pm, which provides a redirect method for you.)

You could start with this FAQ node, or the answers to a similar problem. Or just use the search function, and search for redirect. Heck, that's how I found the above two nodes. There's a good bit on general help with CGI in Perl here, too.

If none of that helps, come back with the details (what your header looks like, browser/platform/webserver details, and exact error message), and post a reply to this message.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.