Hi André, On Tue 16 Jun 2009, André Warnier wrote: > Alan Wilson wrote: > > Thanks - that makes sense, using a test along the lines of > > > > print "Content-Type: text/html\n"; > > print "Status: 302 Moved\nLocation: > > http://www.mydomain.com/test.cgi\n\n";; print "\n"; > > > > Seems to do what I want. > > That is strange, and I am surprised it works (but I don't know > everything). The way you are doing it above, you are still sending an > (implicit) HTTP response code of 200 (OK), and then sending a HTTP > header "Status:", which is normally not how these things work. > > > Assuming you are not using CGI.pm, I would have written it as : > > print "302 Moved\n"; > print "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/test.cgi\n\n";; > > > In perl, and using the CGI module, you would have something like : > > ... > use CGI qw/:standard/; > ... > my $q = new CGI; > ... > print $q->redirect(-uri=>'http://somewhere.else/in/movie/land', > -status=>302); > exit 1; > > See http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/CGI.pm/CGI.html $ perl -MCGI -e 'print CGI::redirect(-location=>"HUHU")' Status: 302 Found Location: HUHU You see, even the CGI module prints the HTTP code as "Status: ..." header. This is consistent with the CGI "standard", see http://hoohoo.ncsa.illinois.edu/cgi/out.html This document even explains what happens if there is a Location header but no Status header or a Status-200 header and the location is just a path not a complete URL. Such a response will not hit the client. Instead Apache will send the document referenced by the path. Hence, Apache must parse the output of the CGI script. You can avoid that using a so called non-parsed-header script. Then you can send the client whatever you want. Scan the documentation for more information. Just my 2 Pfennige (die es nicht mehr gibt), Torsten -- Need professional mod_perl support? Just hire me: torsten.foertsch@xxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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