CGI: Run Script then load page

Sun Aug 5 02:51:03 EDT 2001

On 4 Aug 2001, Lang 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?

Maybe you can use meta refresh?

<head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=main.html">

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

But I've heard 1-click is patented. Be careful ;-)

>-Lang
>

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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