It looks like you don't understand the web at all.

see this for a very short introduction.

The CGI/whatever webserver code does not run on the browser, or the browser's system. It runs on whatever machine you've installed your CGI code on. In general the only code that will run on the browser itself is Javascript.

In other words, you can't use $^O in server-side perl, since that checks the server's operating system, which will remain the same until you move the code to another machine yourself. update: and you definitely do not want to open a bunch of browser windows on the server either.

What you want is to have the code that runs on the browser to behave in a certain way. For some reason you expect the users all to use IE, but that's immaterial. What you have to realize is that the behaviour of the browser is determined by whatever the browser receives. There are ways to open a new browser window. One is to use Javascript to open a new window with a new url. See window.open(). The other is to use a target attribute on a link.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: Open another IE browser window from CGI by Joost
in thread Open another IE browser window from CGI by Olaf

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