Hi there, I am new to perl and programming in general, and am enjoying the challenge of learning such an interesting and well supported language. I am impressed by this site and hope to be able to make a positive contribution in the future. I am trying to enable links to documents on a file server on the LAN from a redmine wiki page. The redmine wiki doesn't support UNC paths or the file:/// method of linking to files on the network. I need help using CGI to redirect to a document, so the user would click on a HTTP:// link within the wiki page, maybe the link would look like this: http://wiki/redirect.cgi?unc=\\fileserver\share\document.doc So the redirect.cgi script would read what comes after "unc" and fetch the document for the user. I hope I am making sense, I come from a more systems and infrastructure background so this is all a bit foreign to me! Any ideas and snippets would be much appreciated. Cheers

In reply to Redirect from URL to UNC path by Lost Kiwi

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