You'd use Javascript, or some other technology that embeds program instructions in HTML code. Perl can't, in general, be used *within* an HTML page without a special framework far more complex to set up than using CGI.pm. But assuming that what you seek is information on how you would write a script that would accept output from an HTML form and redirect the user's browser based on that output, you *should* use CGI.pm to gather that information, or failing that, CGI::Lite. Unless you have some very good reason for not wanting to use CGI.pm ?

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'
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I'm sure the gods of complete http headers will strike me for this one, but in a quick and dirty situation, this should function:

As your first print statement send:

print "Location: http://www.redirect.me/here\n\n";
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As I said before, this returns incomplete HTTP headers, however it should provide the desired function in an emergency situation.

Heres an example (redirects you to yahoo):
http://www.jerryfowler.net/redirect.cgi

And here's the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Location: http://www.yahoo.com\n\n";
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-Jerry
http://www.digilliance.net