If you post a code snippet, it will be much easier for us to debug. It looks like you are doing something like the following:

use CGI qw/:standard/;
print redirect("http://www.msn.com");
[download]

That should produce a 302 status code, and a location header:

Status: 302 Moved
location: http://www.msn.com/
[download]

Try telnetting to port 80 of your box and issuing the GET request manually. That's will get you a definitive answer to what's going on. If you're not sure how that works, check out this script which will generate the proper requests for you (and there are some good responses below that, too).

You could also try printing an extra -- header("text/plain") -- before the redirect header. That will cause the redirect header to show up in the browser. However, if you are afraid that your server is messing with your headers or doing something else weird, then this would not be definitive.

Cheers,
Ovid

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