Hi all.

I am trying to write a simple login form. The first page is simply HTML with two text fields ( name and password ) with one submit button. This part is finished. The form action is a perl based CGI script that looks like this: 

#!C:\perl\perl.exe -wT

use strict;
use CGI qw( :standard );
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $Name = param("Name");
my $Password = param("Password");

redirect("/login.html") unless param("Name");

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The login.html form is in the apache htdocs folder and the perl script is in cgi-bin.Since I am still learning the nuances of writing CGI scripts, I am slightly puzzled as to why the browser does not display the login.html page if I don't insert into the Name field. I can only assume I need to to modify my httpd.conf file ( Apache 1.3.20 ) to handle both HTML and CGI based applications? If so, any help in doing so would be most appreciated. The text I am using to learn CGI isn't particularly good. ( i.e. many demos, few explanations ).

Thanks,
-Katie

In reply to Perl/CGI redirect. by DigitalKitty

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