I want to download a file and redirect to another page. Downloading the file works, but how do I get a redirect? I heared about using javascript to get this done, but I wasn't successful yet. Can you please help me out?

My basic-script without redirect (working fine):

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

my $oCGI = new CGI;
my $p_filename= $oCGI->param("filename");

print "Content-Type: application/x-download\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$p_filename.pdf\n\n";
unlink $p_filename;

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How do I add the Javascript part? The following doesnt work:

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

my $oCGI = new CGI;
my $p_filename= $oCGI->param("filename");

print "Content-Type: application/x-download\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$p_filename.pdf\n\n";
print ' <html>
            <head>
                <title>Redirect</title>
                <script type="text/javascript">
                    window.onload = function(){
                        window.location = "my_new_url.pl?param1=123";
                    }
                </script>
            </head>
        </html>';
unlink $p_filename;

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In reply to Perl CGI download file and redirect by Yaerox

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