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

Help : I have the following scenerio: HTML -> Hotlink calls CGI Script which does some preprocessing and then write's a dynamic HTML call via a Java script Window.Open(). Then a form is displayed. Problem #1, when I call the CGI script, the parent window disappears (goes white) - I believe that is due to the Print "Content/TYPE HTML \n\n" (etc.. yeah I know not exactly correct). How can I get around that. Secondly, after the form is filled out and submitted, a second cgi process handles the form and calls Window.close (), but I can not figure out after the window close, how to refress the parent window. Any suggestions?! Michael Thank you - OEMike

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Re: PERL, JAVA and HTML
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 07, 2002 at 23:15 UTC

    The following js (with apologies) snippet, will open a new window from a standard <a href=...></a> (and should work with the button thing you describe) and leave (or rather return) the existing window to the place it started without requiring the multi-levels of indirection you are currently using. I have tested this with my two available browsers, Opera 6 and IE 5.5...the rest is up to you. 

    <html>
    <body>
        <a href=
         "javascript:window.open( 'test.htm','_blank', 'width=100, hei
+ght=100');history(-1);"> 
      test </a>
    </body>
</html>

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Re: PERL, JAVA and HTML
by OEMike (Novice) on Aug 07, 2002 at 19:20 UTC
    Here is an example: 
    
(HTML)
<a href="www.example.com/cgi-bin/openwindow.cgi">

...User clicks link and starts CGI below

(CGI) - Open Window
...basic PERL header stuff here..
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<HMTL
<scirpt>
window.open('security_modify_information.htm'
  ,'mywindow','width=400,height=550,left=30
</script>
JAVA

(HTML - Security_modify_information.htm)
This is a form, upon submit, it checks the form fields and upon comple
+tion, it does the following:

<script>
window.close ();
</script>

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    The first CGI - which is opened as a child window, opens but the parent get's cleared. Then when the submit is completed, the parent neeeds to be reloaded. Hope that clears things up.
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      Why don't you simply have your link in the parent window open a new window which loads your CGI script? That should preserve the contents of the parent window.
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        The Href is actually a FPHOVER button that accepts a URL PARM, so you can only call a CGI or HTM script from it, not a Window.open java command.. Thank you - OEMike
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