CGI's header() method is for sending HTTP headers, not meta HTTP tags. To send an HTTP redirect, you can use: 

header(-location => 'http://foobar.com/');

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Note that the HTTP standard does not have a timing feature; if you send the redirect the browser will go there right away.

If you use it from within an SSI, be sure that it's executed before anything else in the file, as mod_include will send default headers as soon as it encounters some data to send. (I think there may be a way to suppress this behavior, however. Check the mod_include docs.)

In reply to Re: Redirection Failure from SHTML by friedo
in thread Redirection Failure from SHTML by Anonymous Monk

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