Did you still have the print header,start_html,h1('redirecting to a different page'); line before the print redirect?

CGI's redirect function sends a complete HTTP response to the web browser telling it that the page it requested moved somewhere else, with the URL to there. 

$ perl -le '
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print redirect("http://some.where.else");
'
Status: 302 Found
Location: http://some.where.else

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It looks like you're trying to redirect while displaying a page to the user. Something like 

<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="5;url=http://localhost/html/te
+st.html">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>redirecting to a different page</h1>
  </body>
</html>

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CGI's redirect doesn't do that.

In reply to Re^3: cgi redirect by keszler
in thread cgi redirect by Anonymous Monk

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