cgi redirect

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi All,

I was just checking the cgi redirect and wondering that it's not redirecting to the page specified. Below is the simple code:

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header,start_html,h1('redirecting to a different page');
sleep 5;
print redirect('http://localhost/html/test.html');
print end_html;
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Upon executing on browser I am getting the output "'redirecting to a different page" but it's not redirecting to the html page mentioned. Am I doing anything wrong? Please let me know.

Thanks.

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Re: cgi redirect by keszler (Priest) on Nov 26, 2009 at 14:48 UTC
From CGI:GENERATING-A-REDIRECTION-HEADER: The redirect() method redirects the browser to a different URL. If you use redirection like this, you should not print out a header as well.	[reply]
Re^2: cgi redirect by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2009 at 15:02 UTC
Hi keszler, Thanks for your reply, I tried this "print redirect(-location=>'http://localhost/html/test.html',-nph=>1);" but still it won't redirect.	[reply]
Re^3: cgi redirect by keszler (Priest) on Nov 26, 2009 at 15:18 UTC
Did you still have the `print header,start_html,h1('redirecting to a different page');` line before the `print redirect`? CGI's redirect function sends a complete HTTP response to the web browser telling it that the page it requested moved somewhere else, with the URL to there. `$ perl -le ' use CGI qw/:standard/; print redirect("http://some.where.else"); ' Status: 302 Found Location: http://some.where.else` [download] It looks like you're trying to redirect while displaying a page to the user. Something like `<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="5;url=http://localhost/html/te +st.html"> </head> <body> <h1>redirecting to a different page</h1> </body> </html>` [download] CGI's redirect doesn't do that.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: cgi redirect by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2009 at 15:38 UTC
Re: cgi redirect by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2009 at 16:55 UTC
Re^2: cgi redirect by gmargo (Hermit) on Nov 26, 2009 at 17:16 UTC
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