You said
your script should not print the headers until it has looked at the cgi parameters, done a database lookup, and figured out whether or not it needs to redirect; if redirection is needed, just do that instead of printing headers; otherwise, print the headers and do whatever else is needed.

Okay this is very weird.I dont know how to say this anymore. i;ll try once more.If i am not printing the headers and then start_html and prin HOW will i tell the user to fill in the appropriate username and password so i can later then validate it against a database?
Iam sying this because by default to print something and in this case the form table i must issue a header command first.
If i dont do that, then i have no way to get the username nad password from the user.....
Isnt what iam saying logical and stands true???

In reply to Re^14: Redirecting values from 1 script to another by Nik
in thread Redirecting values from 1 script to another by Nik

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