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RE: tlug: META tags in perl scripts

>>>>> "Beth" == Beth Noble <beth@example.com> writes:

    Beth> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    Beth> print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\" CONTENT=\"0;
    Beth>        URL=http://www.x.y.z./file.html\">";

    Beth> I could have just used
    Beth> print "Location: http://www.x.y.z/file.html\n\n";
    Beth> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

This will NOT work AFAIK because of the "\n\n", which separates the
headers from the body.  The content-type will be ignored.

Have you tried

print "Location: http://www.x.y.z/file.html\n"; # note single "\n"
print "Refresh: 0; URL=http://www.x.y.z./file.html";

?  (Oh, and doesn't PERL output a newline for every print?  Maybe
those should be printf's?)

Thing is, the browser should barf on the <META ...> in the MIME header
portion.  <META ..> is meaningless outside of the HTML header (ie, it
must come between <HEAD> ... </HEAD>).  Although I wouldn't be
surprised if a nonconformant browser, ie, IE (pronounced Ay-yi-yi!)
did something with it anyway.


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