I would suggest not using SSI at all. Instead, create a script in your cgi-bin directory that does the following:

1. Checks for the cookie.
2. If cookie exists, generate "admin output".
3. Else, if cookie does not exist, generate other output.

HTML::Template may be useful here, especially if there is stuff common to both pages.

Your URL will now point to this cgi script directly, rather than to an html file that invokes it via SSI. And you eliminate the redirect as well.

If you really want an HTML file, create a file that contains a frameset with a single frame, and point the source of the frame to the cgi-script.

Alternatively, If you're using Apache, you could also use mod_rewrite to map one URL to another.

In reply to Re: Need help with redirect by scorpio17
in thread Need help with redirect by MatthewV

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