I am having problems with a script which uses a module i have also written for authentication and user information. The code section with the problem is: 
my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header();

# get the User, or go to login page
my $user = new GWAK::User()
 or GWAK::User->redirect_to_login(GWAK::User->errstr);

print $user->page_start();

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which currently gives me a blank page in ie with default looking source, which is not written by me: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+</HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

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if I change the code at the top to: 
my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header();

# get the User, or go to login page
my $user = new GWAK::User() or die "Invalid User";

print $user->page_start();

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The page prints completely correctly (ie. does not die either). The function replaced, GWAK::User->redirect_to_login only prints a redirect message and returns, why would this stop the page from displaying?

In reply to cgi page not showing by jeff280679

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