in reply to Redirects and CGI.pm

However, after I use CGI.pm to set a cookie, it no longer works and just prints it to the web browser as part of the page.

Show us your code. Strip it down to a small example that demonstrates the problem.

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Re: Re: Redirects and CGI.pm
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 02, 2002 at 19:17 UTC 
        my $query = CGI::new();
    my $cookie_name = $query->cookie(-name  => 'MYHASH',
                     -value => \%hash);
print $query->header(-cookie=>$cookie_name);

print query->redirect('http://somewhere.else/in/movie/land');

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    code. The second answer, stating that redirect & header are basicallyt he same is what i needed. Thank you.
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      Therein lies your problem. A redirect is part of the HTTP header; once you print the header (via the header() method) you can't print another one. Try: 

      print $query->header(-cookie => $cookie_name, 
                     -location => 'http://www.somewhere-else.com/');

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