This is my first ever perl/CGI question as so far I've been able to figure everything else out. I want to use CGI.pm to auto refresh a web page every 5 seconds. I can do this if I use perl to manually print the header but I'm already using CGI for cookies and redirects and really don't want to do things the hard way. Plus I want to understand what I'm missing. Here's some isolated code I've been working with. No errors, just doesn't refresh. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);
print header;

print start_html(-head=>meta({-http_equiv => 'Refresh', -content=> 'CO
+NTENT=5; URL=http://someurl//thiscode.pl'}));

print qq{<h1>Refresh damn you.</h1>};
   
print end_html;

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In reply to Using CGI.pm to auto refresh a web page by Anonymous Monk

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