wardk answered your question, but I thought I'd explain why your version worked.

When a browser receives an "http-equiv" meta tag, it takes the information in that tag and treats it like one of the headers. Thus, your meta({-http_equiv =>'refresh'... is effectively the same as sending a redirect header.

It's interesting to note that in some circumstances, the meta tag is preferable to a header redirect. IIS, in its last three versions, ignores a cookie that is set when you attempt to redirect, unless you swith to nph (non-parsed header) scripts. This has been a consistently annoying bug that frequently crops up. Of course, Apache doesn't have this problem :)

Cheers,
Ovid

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