CGI Redirect to another page

[Andrew Chalk]

What is wrong with meta-refresh?

"Andrew Clover" <and-google at doxdesk.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Howarth <tim at worthy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > print "Location: http://abcxyz/index.html"
>
> > AFAIUI it simply sends a redirect header.
>
> Yep; however, if you include a relative URI with no hashpart:
>
>   print 'Location: /index.html'
>   print
>
> Then the server should send that page to the browser directly, without
> sending a redirect back to the browser. This may be preferable in
> some cases.
>
> (The second print is needed to end the CGI response headers.)
>
> Full spec here:
>
>   http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
>
> (Using JavaScript or meta-refresh to do redirects is almost always a
> really terrible idea.)
>
> -- 
> Andrew Clover
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