in reply to history.back()

Perl generally works on the server side. JavaScript generally works on the browser side. The server does not have access to the browser's history, so it is inaccessible to Perl.

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Re^2: history.back()
by shiza (Hermit) on Jun 24, 2005 at 21:25 UTC 
    #!/path/to/perl

use strict;
my $q = CGI->new();

print $q->header();
print qq(<script>history.go(-1);</script>);

exit;

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    If I recall correctly, history.back() is not cross-browser friendly.
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