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in reply to Browser redirection
Are you asking whether it is possible to open an IE browser from within a script running in a Netscape browser? (no, that is not possible with Perl or CGI, nor is such user system hijackery recommendable in any case)
Or, are you asking about location redirection, i.e. redirecting a user with a Netscape browser to the Microsoft IE website for a download? Yes, this is possible with Perl, but making the user wait for a server-side script to execute for this is not recommendable, either.
Sounds like you're looking for JavaScript...
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Re: Re: Browser redirection
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2002 at 15:40 UTC
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Thanks for all the replies.
Yes, I want something that will take me from a Netscape page to
a IE page. No downloads just a link on the web page using Netscape browser that will redirect to a specific
page in IE browser.
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Ok, the reason something like that is not possible, is because that involves making a call to the users system. If you could open explorer from a cgi, what's to stop you from running rm -rf / or format c: or some other nasty system call.
I suppose if you are targetting a browser that supports ActiveX you could prompt your user to accept a control that could do something like that. But such an operation, cannot and should not be carried out automatically from a CGI.
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