You know what, here is a real example

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:all);
#use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;

print header;

print start_html({-head => meta({
 -http_equiv => 'refresh', CONTENT=> '1;url=' . param('URL')  }),
 -title => "This page has moved!"
});

print end_html;

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To test it, uncomment the carp command and you call it from the commandline like so:
perl example.cgi URL=http://127.0.0.1:8080
If all goes well, you get output similar to: 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html
        PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-U
+S">
<head>
<title>This page has moved!</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://127.0.0.1:8080" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
</head>
<body>

</body>

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And now you can test in in the browser and such... keep in mind you still need to validate the url, and check if there is no URL given etc...

In reply to Re^4: Perl CGI redirect by FreeBeerReekingMonk
in thread Perl CGI redirect by jbt424

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