Location and IE6

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

I can't get the very basic "Location" command to redirect the browser if using IE6. This code works for all other browsers, and I'm wondering if there is some trick for IE6. I use the command like so:

print "Location: http://xxx.com/somescript.cgi?p1=x1&p2=x2&etc\n\n";
exit(0);
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and I do not print out any other headers at all. Any insight you can provide will be greatly appreciated!

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Re: Location and IE6 by tachyon (Chancellor) on May 08, 2002 at 13:28 UTC
You should probably drop a stronger hint with a header like: `print "HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Status: 302 Moved Location: http://www.wherever.com\n\n";` [download] When you print a very basic header the server software adds all the other bits you left off using a "best guess" so presumably its best guess is not good enough for IE6. Failing that send a redirect page like: `print "Content-type: text/html <html> <head> <title>Redirect</title> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.wherever.com"> </head> <body></body> </html>";` [download] cheers tachyon s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Location and IE6 by perlplexer (Hermit) on May 08, 2002 at 12:45 UTC
(use CGI;)++ mmmkay? CGI.pm : Generating a redirection header Try that. If that doesn't work then we'll talk. :) --perlplexer	[reply]
Re: Re: Location and IE6 by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2002 at 13:01 UTC
This doesn't work either. In both cases the browser just hangs forever.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Location and IE6 by perlplexer (Hermit) on May 08, 2002 at 14:29 UTC
I don't have IE6 to test this; however, This test by hopes suggests that the problem is elsewhere. Cut & paste his example, see if that works. --perlplexer	[reply]
Re: Location and IE6 by hopes (Friar) on May 08, 2002 at 12:54 UTC
Try using CGI: `#!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; $query=new CGI; print $query->redirect(-uri=>'http://www.yoursite.com', -nph=>1);` [download] In my IE6 works... Hopes `$_=$,=q,\,@4O,,s,^$,$\,,s,s,^,b9,s, $_^=q,$\^-]!,,print` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]