self_url() just returns the url of the cgi script with the name/value pairs that the user entered into the form tacked onto the end of the url. So if self_url() returned this url:

"http://www.somesite.com/page1.htm?age=10&name=Tom"

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You could do this:


my $url = self_url();
$url =~ s/name=Tom/name=Betty/;

print $url, "\n";

--output:--
http://www.somesite.com/page1.htm?age=10&name=Betty

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Then you could insert the altered url in the html output that you send back to the browser.

In reply to Re: Perl-CGI refresh with different param(s)?? by 7stud
in thread Perl-CGI refresh with different param(s)?? by jonc

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