Problem solved many thanks to Chrisf and Zaxo for their help in the chatterbox with this... here is what i (with the help of those mentioned above, remember if your in my nect of the woods cookies will be yours) did. #1 I changed the redirect statemnt to contain the full URL so it looks like this 
print redirect("http://www.awebserver.com/cgi-bin/~whereyouneedtogo.pl
+?username=$un");

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2.I also changed the way I was evaluating the params passed to the script the redirect was calling. Now they evaluate before.It is questionable if this was needed or not but it makes the code a little cleaner. 3. And here is the big fix. If you look closley the script was already sending info back to the browser when the redirect was called. this dosent work.... so i changed it now that whole section of code. Now it looks like this: 
  sub char_handler {
        my ($expat, $text) =@_;
        if ($::flag==1 && $text eq (param("username"))) {
           $::flag=1;
        }

        if ($::flag==2 && $text eq (param("password"))) {
           my($un);
           $un=param("username");
           print redirect("http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/xml_final/vie
+wdb.pl?username=$un");
        }
        elsif ($::flag==2 && $text ne (param("password"))) {
           $::flag=0;

           print header;
           print start_html(-title => "Not so much correct with tha lo
+gin" ,-style => {
              -src => "../..//xml_final/db.css"});
           print h1("incorrect password");
           print p({-align=>'CENTER'},a{-href=>"login.pl"},"Try Agian?
+");
           print end_html;
           #print a link back to login.pl
        }
   }

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Nifty huh? If you wondering what the script actually does. it is taking usernames and passwords from an xml file and validating them agianst what was entered in the web browser... this is a first run at it. If anyone wants to suggest impovements pelase feel free.

In reply to Re: A CGI redirect problem by krujos
in thread A CGI redirect problem by krujos

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