How can I do 301 redirect using perl?
I was asked to do 301 redirect for a page. I have placed the following code in my cgi program. 
#!/usr/bin/perl    
print "Status: 301 Moved Permanantly\n";
print "Location: http://www.mydomain.com/page.html\n\n";
exit;

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But the result is "Status: 301 Moved Permanantly Location: http://www.mydomain.com/page.html" printed on my browser. My question is, 
1. Whats  the use of 301 redirect and how to do that?
2. Do I require any Apache setting OR .htaccess setting?
3. Why I can't simply do "Http-Equiv=refresh" or 
   print "Location:http://www.mydomain.com/page.html\n\n"
   for the same task?

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Thanks

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