Very Respected Revealers of Wisdom (and Tricks),
In the following script for password protecting a page (just a light password protect) that will then shoot the visitor through to another page (myview.cgi, which is in the same directory as this script), the redirect will not work. The redirect instructions get printed out to the display screen, they do not end up in the browser as the new URL. You'll see that I have not included a $query->new_HTML line in order to try to remedy the problem. Still doesn't work. Any monk eyes out there to spot the problem? 
#!/usr/bin/perl        

use CGI;

$query = new CGI;   
print $query->header;
print $query->start_form;

print "Enter the password: ",$query->textfield('pass',$default_name,10
+),"\n";

&submit_parameters($query)              if $query->param('action') eq 
+'Submit';

print $query->submit('action','Submit');
print $query->end_form;

sub submit_parameters {
    local($query) = @_;
    local($filename) = &check_name($query->param('pass'));

    if($filename) {
            print $query->redirect(-target => 'ResultWindow', -expires
+ => 'now',
 -uri=>'http://lauragarcia.wso.net/CGI/mySQLeditor/myview.cgi');
     }
}

sub check_name {
   $password="muppets";
   local($name) = @_;
   unless ($name eq $password) {
      print "<P>Try it again!";
      return;
      }
   return "$name";
}

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Eternally grateful! laura.guimauve

In reply to Redirect page (newbie) by lauragarcia

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