[Tutor] webbrowser

[Danny Yoo]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:08:14PM -0700, Michael Emperador wrote:
> | I am running on Linux Suse7.2.  I have a form(on my personal site) that
> | calls this cgi script.
> | Based on input, it will redirect to another page on the server(i.e., a
> | personal page).  This is what I'm trying to open in a browser. I'm simply
> | trying to get to a another page based on user input.  I would greatly
> | appreciate your input and any advice you could share.
> 
> Oh, I see.  That's a bit different.  You don't want to run a browser
> from the script, you want to return an HTTP redirect to the client
> (browser) that submitted the form.

There's a special META tag that can perform a redirect.  If you send as
your CGI's content the following tag:

    <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=textOnly.htm">

most web browsers will respect this and automatically redirect to whatever
page you want.

For another example, take a look here:

    http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/faq/howto/sample_redirect.html


Good luck!