in reply to How to redirect an html page to a Perl script

If you can arrange it, you'd be best off having your server return a 301 Moved response code. This is the preferred solution.

If you don't have the access to do that with your server, you could replace your index.html file with a message saying it's moved, and including a meta refresh tag, like so: 

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh"
          content="0; URL=http://new.site.com/script.pl?source=old+sit
+e+name">
    <title>Page has moved!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This page has
      <a href="http://new.site.com/script.pl?source=old+site+name">mov
+ed</a>!
    </h1>
  </body>
</html>

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Of course, meta refresh isn't supported by all browsers (IIRC, lynx doesn't support it). And it might screw with the browser's history.

Update: Fixed content portion of meta refresh (missing URL=), and added some more explanation.

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