Hi monks, I've taken up CGI recently. I have a cgi program which calculates votes based on the option chosen at a web page. When the user clicks on 'Vote' button, i want poll.cgi to redirect to results.cgi.

Here's the code in poll.cgi that I'm using.

print redirect ("http://10.20.91.122/cgi-bin/result.cgi");
Now on clicking 'Vote' I see:
Status: 302 Found Location: http://10.20.91.122/cgi-bin/result.cgi

What am I doing wrong here?
Here's the complete poll.cgi code:
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use Fcntl qw(:flock :seek);
        
print header;
print start_html("Poll");

my $outfile="poll.txt";
if(param('club')){
    open(POLL,">>$outfile") or dienice ("Can't open poll.txt: $!");
    flock(POLL, LOCK_EX);
    seek(POLL,0,SEEK_END);
    print POLL param('club')."\n";
    close(POLL);
}

print end_html;

#redirect to result.cgi
print redirect ("http://10.20.91.122/cgi-bin/result.cgi");


sub dienice {
    my($msg) = @_;
    print header;
    print start_html("Error");
    print h2("Error");
    print $msg;
    print end_html;
    exit;
}

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