HELP! - Automatic Page loading

shamrox · Nov 28, 2001

I need some help with the line of code to use to make an html page I created to open automatically after a form is submitted. I have a cgi script right now, that automatically creates one of those "thank you for submitting" pages, and I tried replacing that html with the html from the page I made. That didn't work. So, is there a line of code that I'd put after the "Print" function, that would point it to a new page, like samplepage.html ???
Hope I haven't been to confusing.

Bill

http://www.thepatrickstudio.com

jeans · Nov 29, 2001

Use something like this inside a message body:
<FORM action=filename.cgi method=get> Jean Spector
QA Engineer @ mSAFE Ltd.

http://www.msafe.com

goBoating · Nov 29, 2001

Give us a concise look at what you have.

I suspect it is a simple syntax error or failure to follow the CGI rules. If you are new to Tek-Tips, please use descriptive titles, check the FAQs,
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shamrox · Nov 29, 2001

Do you want me to post all of the code in here? I don't know if you can see my cgi script code on my site.

http://www.thepatrickstudio.com

Rieekan · Nov 29, 2001

You could use this small program to print the text of the code out. Just replace the location of the file to where your file is located on the server.

#/usr/bin/perl

use CGI ':standard';

$file = "/location/of/file";

print header;

print "<HTML>\n<BODY>\n";

open (PERLFILE, <$file) or die "Can't open file for reading: $!";

while (<PERLFILE>)
{
print "$_<br>\n";
}
close (PERLFILE);

tsdragon · Nov 29, 2001

You can simply redirect to the thank you page like this:

Code:

print &quot;Location: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.somewhere.com/path/thank_you.html\n\n&quot;;[/URL]

You can also print the html directly. The important thing to remember there is that you have to print a content type header first:

Code:

print &quot;Content-type: text/html\n\n&quot;;
print <<ENDHTML;
<html>
<head>
...
</html>
ENDHTML
[code]
Make sure ENDHTML is on a line by itself, starts in column 1, and has at least one line, preferably blank, following it. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com
[URL unfurl="true"]www.bydisn.com[/URL]

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

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HELP! - Automatic Page loading

shamrox

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