Greetings,

I'm trying to use a Perl script to print some redirect HTML after processing a form.

When I use the following code: 

print <<"EOF";
<HTML>
<HEAD>
 <META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" CONTENT=\"0;
    URL=http://my.url.com/page.html\">
</HEAD><BODY></BODY>
EOF
print end_html;

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The page doesn't redirect, but just spits out my HTML. The result page literally looks like this:

<HEAD>
 <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
    URL=http://my.url.com/page.html">
</HEAD><BODY></BODY>
</BODY></HTML>

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(I used my.url.com just for this example.) I've also tried printing "Content-type: text/html" but that didn't make any difference. BTW: I'm also using CGI.pm.

Can someone shed some light on this?

Gratefully,
Tii

In reply to Need HTML Redirect by Tii

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