Perl

[Thomas Dowling]

But that isn't the same thing at all.  David doesn't want to create an HTML
page with a link to the arts page; he wants to go directly to the arts page
with an HTTP Location header.  It should be no problem, except that it
sounds like something else is writing an HTTP header first.

I would try creating another script in the same directory that consisted
entirely of:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
print "Location: http://www.yahoo.com\n\n";


See if that actually goes to yahoo.  If it doesn't, I'd have to guess that
your server is adding header information prematurely.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: c478923 at showme.missouri.edu <c478923 at showme.missouri.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: Perl


>Try this David:
>
>if ($in{'subject'} eq "art")
>               {
>               print "<a href
=http://salve4.salve.edu/sub-arts.html>Whatever I
> want my link to say</a>\n";
>               }
>
>Jim Borwick <c478923 at showme.missouri.edu>
>"Brevity is the soul of lingerie"
> -Dorothy Parker
>
>On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, David Kim wrote:
>
>> I am a beginner for Perl. In a HTML file, I set up a pull-down menu
offering
>> several subjects to choose from.  If a student selects "art" for example,
>> I try to make the server establish a link to art web site. The following
is
>> a part of my cgi script.  Instead of making a link, it simply print my
command
>> on the screen.  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> {
>> if ($input{'subject'} eq "art")
>> {
>> print "Location: http://salve4.salve.edu/sub-arts.html\n\n";
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Thank you for help.
>>
>> David Kim
>> kim at salve.edu
>>
>
>