Simple fix. You have an if check in your findurl subroutine. Don't set a global variable $url, but return it. Something like this: 
sub findurl { 
    my $url;
    open (INFO, $datafile) or die "Can't open $datafile: $!";
    while (<INFO>) {        
        my ($title, $location) = split(/\|/ , $_);
        if ($title eq $name) {
            $url = $location;
        }
    }
    close (INFO); 
    return $url;   
}

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That means you'll have to call it slightly differently: 
my $url = findurl();
if (defined $url) {
    doit();
} else {
    incomplete();
}

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I'd try to get rid of the global variables as far as possible, passing $name as an argument to findurl(), and $url as an argument to doit().

As for general coding advice, you ought to look into using the -w flag and strict. In CGI scripts, you should also use -T for taint checking (see perlsec), and there's usually no good reason not to use CGI instead of your parse subroutine. Yours doesn't handle checkboxes, for example.

Don't worry, these things will help you in the long run.

In reply to Re: Error 404 fix by chromatic
in thread Error 404 fix by koacamper

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