Hi folks. I'm new to CGI, and I'm trying to get a page refresh after 3 seconds. From the CGI.pm docs, it looks like I should be able to do an http-equiv tag like so: 
start_html(-title=>"Title",
  -author=>'a@b.c',
  -head=>meta({-http_equiv=>'Refresh',
  -content=>'3;url=http://internalserver/phil/2.pl'}),
  -BGCOLOR=>'tan');

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Unfortunately, this produces: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Title</TITLE>
<LINK REV=MADE HREF="mailto:a%40b.c">

</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="tan">

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It's ignoring my META tag, and I can't figure it out.
The html that should be generated is something akin to:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT = "seconds;url">

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Alternatively, if there's a way to use the start_html method to create your header, yet add a tag to it (like above) as a scalar, that would be sweet also.
Thanks in advance.
-rev

In reply to CGI: Having Trouble with HTTP-EQUIV by Reverend Phil

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