I am trying to get this script to redirect me to a url upon validation of l/p. It validates just fine. then instead of redirecting at the right time the script continues to run. here is the code, and the output to the browser is below it. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw ( :standard );
use Fcntl qw ( :flock );
use XML::Parser;

if (param) {
   my ($parser, $document, $users);
   local($::flag);
   $::flag=0; 
   open(USERS, "../../xml_final/users/users.xml") || 
      die "Could not open users.xml $!";
   flock(USERS, LOCK_SH);

print header, start_html(-title => "Login" ,-style => {
      -src => "../../xml_final/db.css"}), title ("please login");
print start_html;

   $parser= new XML::Parser();
   $parser->setHandlers(
    Start => \&start_handler,
        Char  => \&char_handler
   );
   
   $document = $parser->parse (\*USERS);
   close (USERS);

   sub start_handler{
      my ($expat, $element, %attributes) =@_;
      if ($::flag==0 && $element eq "username") {
         $::flag=1;
      }

      if ($::flag==1 && $element eq "password") {
         $::flag=2;
      } 
   }

   sub char_handler {
        my ($expat, $text) =@_;
    if ($::flag==1 && $text eq (param("username"))) {
       $::flag=1;
        } 

        if ($::flag==2 && $text eq (param("password"))) {
           print h1("LOGIN IN IS ALL GOOD");
       print redirect("viewdb.pl?username=(param(username)");
       print end_html;
        }
        elsif ($::flag==2 && $text ne (param("password"))) {
       print h1 ("incorrect password");
       $::flag=0;
           
          print p({-align=>'CENTER'},a{-href=>"login.pl"},"Try Agian?"
+);
           print end_html;
           #print a link back to login.pl    
       }
   }
}
else {
   print header, start_html(-title => "Login" ,-style => {
      -src => "../../xml_final/db.css"}), title ("please login");
   print start_form;
   print h1({-align=>'CENTER'}, "Please login");
   print p({-align=>'CENTER'},"username:", textfield(
      -NAME=>"username"
    ));
   print p({-align=>'CENTER'},"password:", password_field(
      -NAME=>"password"
    ));
   print p({-align=>'CENTER'},submit("send"),reset);

   print end_form;
   print p({-align=>'CENTER'},a{-href=>"newuser.pl"},"New User?");

   print end_html;
}

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and the browser output is Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><title>Login</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../xml_final/db.css" /> </head><body><title>please login</title><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"><head><title>Untitled Document</title> </head><body>

LOGIN IN IS ALL GOOD

Status: 302 Moved location: viewdb.pl?username=(param(username) </body></html>

incorrect password

Try Agian?

</body></html>

In reply to A CGI redirect problem by krujos

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