Well, in that case, I'd advocate "use CGI 'redirect'", actually.

Of course ;) Thats why I said, "given example not withstanding".
Although have never been involved in such a trade-off, I guess everybody does expect 50 hits a second on his website a second when he/she is designing it.

The real reason for posting here was to get the author to know (and probably keep-in-mind) that there is more than one method there. I guess referring to the man-page might also have been a good option.....