I've recently got a new client and I converted their html files to shtml pages, and everything works great except the 404.shtml that calls on a new .pl file to this portion of the script via <!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/check.pl" -->
here's the snip from the check.pl file 
$page=$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'};
   if ($page =~ /a\.html/) { $p="a.shtml"; }
elsif ($page =~ /b\.html/) { $p="b.shtml"; }
elsif ($page =~ /c\.html/) { $p="c.shtml"; }
elsif ($page =~ /d\.html/) { $p="d.shtml"; }
else { print header( -Refresh => "5; URL=http://foobar.com");
if ($p) { print header; printnewsite(2, $p); } else
{ printnewsite(1); }

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If I use the "header( -Refresh" method, the script does not refresh through the shtml, but is ok if I go to it directly.
If I use the start_html(-head=>meta({-http_equiv => 'Refresh', -content=> '5; URL=http://someurl//thiscode.pl'})); it will work ok either way; however, I've allready established a set of html, head, title, and body tags for the printnewsite(); sub, so I get two sets when i use print start_html(); which is not a good thing.
I've also used the print redirect();, it fails just like the header(-refresh.
Is there something I can do that will work with an shtml or am I missing something else here?
Thank you in advance.

In reply to Redirection Failure from SHTML by Anonymous Monk

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