Re: Perl web redirect

Using CGI for this triviality seems like overkill.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Location: http://www.somewhere.com\n\n";
__END__
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Will do. Of course, using perl is overkill, you may as well write a one liner in C:

int main () {printf ("Location http://www.somewhere.com\n\n");}
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Abigail

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Re: Re: Perl web redirect by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jun 10, 2002 at 22:43 UTC
For the simple case, agreed. Unfortunately it's difficult to tell from the poster's question whether or not this was the script's sole purpose.	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl web redirect by little (Curate) on Jun 11, 2002 at 00:42 UTC
Abigail, Please read the specs if you want to do it by hand and right. There is quite more to be remitted, eg. the HTTP Status code, which in this case would be "302", which means MOVED. No, I don't think that using CGI.pm would be overkill (what about tachyon's suggestion for a light weight module instead?), it just helps you to have easy acces to teh Interface without knowing each little detail. Additionallly it helps you to protect your server against attacks very easily. Another hint on CGI's redirection, the name for the parameter is "uri" not "location", eg. `print redirect(-uri=>"http://www.perlmonk.org/", -nph=>1, -cookie=>$cookie)` [download] Please study what the output is to see what has to be remitted. Have a nice day All decision is left to your taste	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Perl web redirect by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 11, 2002 at 09:22 UTC
We are talking `CGI` here, not HTTP. A `Location` header is the proper `CGI` response, it's up to the web server to turn the `CGI` response into an `HTTP` response. You aren't terminating your emitted lines with a `CR LF` either - the server takes care of such details. Abigail	[reply]