in reply to redirecting to a local file

If by "local file" you mean a file on the client's machine, you can use the "file:" url scheme:
 print "Location: file://c|/testfile.txt\n\n";

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Will redirect the browser to c:\testfile.txt

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Re: Re: redirecting to a local file
by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2003 at 16:12 UTC
    I tried that, but IE is printing "server not found" and Mozilla is displaying a "Your page has move here" error page.

    very strange. It used to work.
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      Are you sure you're using the colon after Location as in Thelonius's example? 
      print "Location: file://c|/testfile.txt\n\n";

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      In your initial question you use print "Location $url\n\n";

      Just checking that hasn't been overlooked!

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