in reply to onSubmit Redirect

Here is what I would suggest:

1. make a 0 size frame on the webpage (basically a hidden frame) to re-direct these kind of requests.

<html>
<head>
<frameset rows="0,*" border="0">
  <frame src="URL TO NOTHING (about:blank)" name="hiddenFrame" noresiz
+e scrolling=no>
  <frame src="/cgi-bin/mainScript.pl" name="mainFrame" noresize>
</frameset>
</head>
</html>

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2. When the form button is clicked, process that request and then print the following output to the html page:


# PROCESS HTML SUBMIT HERE
if (button clicked) {

  # any code needed before redirect

  print qq {
    <script language=javascript>
   window.open('/cgi-bin/changestatus.pl','hiddenFrame','')
    window.open('/cgi-bin/mainScript.pl?otherVar1=x&otherVar2=y','main
+Frame','')
    </script>
    </html>
  };
  exit;
}

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If the changestatus.pl needs to complete first, you may need to put a sleep in your code before displaying the results of the second window.open statement. Don't wait too long or you'll annoy your users :)

There might be a consolidated way to do this, but this has worked in several occasions for me.

Sincerely,
Marc

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