There's two different ways to do it. First, the better way (CGI.pm)

# This line loads the CGI.pm module.
use CGI;

# Print any error messages to the browser
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser warningsToBrowser);

my $im_better = new CGI;

# You need to print a content header so you don't end up with Server 5
+00 errors
print $im_better->header();

print $im_better->start_html(-title => 'Test Page');

# The coveted link
print $im_better->a({href=>"http://www.google.com"}, 'Google');

$im_better->end_html();
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Or you can do it quick and dirty:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; # The content header
..... # Put stuff you need here
print '<a href="http://www.google.com>Google</a>';
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If you're also processing form results, etc., I strongly urge you to use CGI.pm.

Update: Your reply to E-Bitch leads me to believe you might be talking about redirection. In which case:

use CGI;
my $im_better = new CGI; 
# Please note that I didn't print a header this time
print $im_better->redirect("http://www.google.com");
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And the quick and dirty way:

# I also didn't print a header this time either
print "location:http://www.google.com\n\n";
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Sarah wrote:
"# I also didn't print a header this time either
print "location:http://www.google.com\n\n";"

The formal way to do this would be to use "URI:http://...".
location: is unoffical. CGI.pm uses both.

Not that you did this wrong but: You may get incorrect results if you use relative URLs, so always use the absolute http://host/path/file URL. Cheers, Steffen

Going by my ever handy copy of the HTTP/1.1 RFC, "Location: <absolute-uri>" is the correct way to do it; other options, such as "URI: <blah>" are not recommended, and support for these options would be hit or miss...

--
RatArsed

    print '<LINK HREF = "style.css" REL = "Stylesheet">';
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-- Abigail

E-Bitch, I have a script that allows users to authenticate, once authenticated/not authenticated users need to be linked to either an error message or an appropriate place. Currently, I am able to get the user to authenticate, however once they do that, they just a message stateing XYZ. Rather that getting that message, I want the user to go somewhere else, lets say, "authenticated.htm". hope this is clearer. Thanks P.A.P

If you are using basic authentication on the Apache webserver then what you are asking is not possible without recompiling Apache to support custom authentication.

Apache pops up a little dialogue box when you log in. If your login fails then nothing happens. If your login succeeds then you go where you want to go.

Those are your choices. If you want a customized error screen you are out of luck unless you recompile.

Unfortunately, I am rather unfamilar with CGI, but I do know (or think I know) that that would be a redirect (i think). I know with JSPs that you can use response.sendRedirect("somepagehere") (or something similar). I would be surprised if CGI coudnt do the same thing. Anybody help out and confirm this?


thanks!
E-Bitch
adendum: or better yet, you could shoot out a meta redirect tag like this:



<META HTTP-EQUIV='refresh' CONTENT="0;URL='http://www.whatever.com/sub
+mitsuccessful.html'">
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in the head. Its a bit of a hack, but it would work.

#!/jpsama/bin/perl -w
$tks = `mount`;
$jpsama = $! if $!;
print $jpsama;