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One of your problems comes from the fact that you're printing the header at the top of your script, before your redirect logic.

#!c:\phpdev\perl\bin\perl.exe
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
# -----8<-----
[download]

The print line in this block interferes with the redirect statements later in the code. Move your print line from this block to your HTML print block, like so:

# -----8<-----
else {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";    # Line moved here.
print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD><TITLE>Patton Industries</TITLE><BASEFONT SIZE=5></HEAD>\
+n";
# -----8<-----
[download]

In fact, you're printing these headers manually when you should be using CGI.pm. Doing so is simple enough, try this:

my $cgi = new CGI();     # Declare this near the top of the script.
print $cgi->header();    # In place of  your "Print: content-type..." 
+statement.
[download]

A similar convention exists for your redirect statements. Be sure to review the CGI.pm documentation. It will simplify things for you, even if it looks more complicated now.

A few other suggestions/concerns:

What happens when $Salesperson eq "", $Sales == "", and $Rate == "" at the same time?
Look into HERE documents. They'll save you a lot of trouble retyping 'print' over and over at the end of your script. :)
Read up on CGI.pm. It will save you a lot of typing and tracking with respect to the HTML tags. To do so, open a DOS prompt and type "perldoc CGI.pm", without the quotes, on the command line.

Hope this helps.

/Larry

In reply to Re: HTTP headers and redirection by larryp
in thread HTTP headers and redirection by student

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