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Is the server in a seperate virtual machine? If so then the client virtual machine (or host pc) wont see what it opens.

What you probably want is to make the link they click target _BLANK, then the browser will open a new window or tab, depending on its settings.


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Re^2: Open another IE browser window from CGI
by Olaf (Acolyte) on Jan 24, 2008 at 14:49 UTC
    The server and the client reside on the same vmware image. That makes me think there should be a way to open a new browser session.
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      It still a rather odd way of trying to do it. Is there some reason you don't want to just have the link tell the browser to open a new window?


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        I may be doing this a$$backwards, but simplified:
        The page has a radio button set and labels with a submit button.
        When the submit is clicked, the page is reloaded and the page checks to see which if any of the buttons was selected.
        Based on this selection, a number of processes start and then a web application is launched (the IE part of this question).
        So it's not a simple click on a hotlink. This may not be the best use of Perl/CGI, but the rest of the collection of pages that makes up this toolset does rely heavily on Perl and I want to be consistent.
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