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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:59:53 -0500
From:      "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
To:        "'Charles Howse'" <chowse@charter.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Perl cgi redirect not working - Partially solved
Message-ID:  <005e01c38845$d0e42740$04fea8c0@moe>
In-Reply-To: <005901c3883e$12780030$04fea8c0@moe>

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> Hi,
> I'm *copying an example* perl cgi script from "FreeBSD Unleashed" pp.
> 699.
> I have 2 issues.
>=20
> 1. The redirect on the last line isn't working.  It opens a blank page
> and prints the text "Location: http://howse.no-ip.org/thanks.shtml".
> That's not what I want.  I want to open the page thanks.shtml.
>=20
> 2. I can't see the text in the book clear enough to know whether the
> characters I've marked with ^ should be dashes or tildies.
>=20
> I've Googled for the redirect, and tried a few examples, no joy.
> Would someone be kind enough to help?
>=20
>=20
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>=20
> read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
> @pairs =3D split(/&/, $buffer);
> foreach $pair (@pairs)
> {
>     ($name, $value) =3D split(/=3D/, $pair);
>     $value =3D~ tr/+/ /;
>             ^
>     $value =3D~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
>             ^
>     $value =3D~ s/~!/ ~!/g;
>             ^   ^   ^=20
>     $FORM{$name} =3D $value;
> }
>=20
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>=20
> open (MAIL,"| /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t");
> print MAIL "From: $FORM{'name'} <$FORM{'email'}>\n";
> print MAIL "To: charles\n";
> print MAIL "Subject: Contact form output\n\n";
> print MAIL "$FORM{'name'}, from $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'}
> ($ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}), has sent you the following comment:\n\n";
> print MAIL "$FORM{'comment'}\n";
> close (MAIL);
>=20
> print "Location: http://howse.no-ip.org/thanks.shtml\n\n";

I removed the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; line, and now the
redirect works.
Still awaiting some input on the 2nd issue.




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