I am also trying to redirect a user to an HTML page if a certain condition is met. I am using cgi.pm and when I try the code you mentioned (included below) it gives me the error: Status: 302 Found Uri: Location: Content-type: text/html
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->redirect("http://busybody.w1.com/html/2010assignment.html");

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Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?
Thanks-
Laura
My entire script is as follows: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

# 2010b.pl

use CGI;
require ("cgi-lib.pl");

my $q = CGI->new();

print $q->header();

$studentid = $q->param('studentid');
$password = $q->param('password');
$CSC = $q->param('CSC');
$assignment = $q->param('assignment');
$file = $q->param('path');

if ($CSC eq "CSC2010") {
   $openfile = "CSC2010.txt";
   open (IN, "<$openfile") or die "Can't open $openfile\n";
   
   $foundusername = false;
   $foundpassword = false; 

   while ($line = <IN>) {
      chomp($line);
      my ($realstudentid,$realpassword) = split /\|/, $line;

      if ($realstudentid eq $studentid){
         $foundusername = true;  
         
         if ($realpassword eq $password){
         $foundpassword = true;

         print $q->redirect("http://busybody.w1.com/html/2010assignmen
+t.html\n\n");
         exit;
         } 
      }
}


if ($foundusername eq false ) {
   print "username not found!<br>";
}
if ($foundpassword eq false) {
   print "bad password!<br>";
}   
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Serving an html page by lfindle
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