Hi,

Reporting after some hours lost with this. I'm trying to just write a simple script that will redirect someone off a page to another one using a Moved Permanently header. I'm using Firefox as a browser and can't seem to get this to work. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw/:standard/;


my $q = new CGI;

print $q->redirect(
    -status=>301,
    -URL=>'http://192.168.1.3'
);

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If I hit the address of this in the browser sometimes I get a blank page and sometimes I get

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
<p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
<p>Please contact the server administrator,
 webmaster@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.</p>
<p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 PHP/5
+.2.0-8+etch11 Server at 192.168.1.3 Port 80</address>
</body></html>

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Also,the script compiles fine. I don't really understand why it's not working , does anyone know ?

Thank you

In reply to CGI problems by spx2

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