CGI: Run Script then load page

[Gerhard Häring]

On 4 Aug 2001 21:41:11 -0700, Lang <bob at tharin.com> wrote:
>Any cgi/web person out there,
>
>I wrote a couple cgi scripts that I use to manage a database.  When I
>send changes through a form, it calls a script that makes the database
>commit.  Once it is done with the commit, it prints out a return
>button (that's all that shows up on the page) which needs to be pushed
>to return to the main page.  How do I call the script, run the commit,
>and then return to a given URL as one step instead of two?

The solution Roman proposed works, but the following is technically better :-)
It uses features of the HTTP protocol instead.

#!/usr/bin/env python
print "Status-Code: 301"                        # Moved permanently
print "Location: http://www.rfceditor.org/"     # New location
print ""                                        # Newline ends HTTP header

>I think that this is pretty basic, but I can't find an answer. 

This and more useful information can be found in RFC 2616 (HTTP 1.1).
http://www.rfceditor.org feature a searchable RFC index, for example.

Gerhard
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