Re: Quick Cookie Question, with CGI.pm.
by Carl Jolley other posts by this author
May 16 2002 2:52AM messages near this date
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Re: Quick Cookie Question, with CGI.pm.
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Re: Quick Cookie Question, with CGI.pm.
On Wed, 15 May 2002 barons@[...].net wrote:
> I kind of leaned towards that because nothing I could find
> said anything about sending a cookie and basically
> redirecting at the same time. I took your advice and did
>
> print $query->header(-cookie => $send_it);
> print qq(<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
> URL=http://localhost/test/">);
>
> This worked like a charm. Funny thing though. Sending the
> cookie in the redirect like stated below worked in
> Netscape. But not IE. Usually it's the other way around.
> During reading up on this I kept seeing issues with the
> cache, and the problems with using the redirect. I don't
> know. Thank all for the help.
>
> Allan
>
>
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002 22:18:30 -0400 (EDT)
> Carl Jolley <cjolley@[...].net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002 barons@[...].net wrote:
> >
> > > I know that the cookie has to be sent with the header.
> > But
> > > i'm having a problem sending a cookie and then
> > > redirecting.
> > >
> > > print $query->header(-cookie => $sendcookie);
> > > print $query->redirect(-uri=>'http://www.yahoo.com/');
> > >
> > > This will send the cookie but prints the 303 error
> > message
> > > from CGI.pm. How can I send the cookie and redirect at
> > the
> > > same time.
> > >
> > > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > That's because when you redirect, that's all you can do.
> > The only similar
> > thing that you might try is to send the cookie and then
> > for your response
> > send a dummy page with an HTTP-META-equiv tag in the
> > <HEADER> specifying a
> > refresh with a timeout of zero and also with the URL that
> > you want to
> > redirect to. That should result in the cookie being sent
> > and the browser
> > being redirected without showing any content of the dummy
> > page.
> >
You might try fully fleshing out the dummy html page with
a <HTML> <HEAD><META ...></HEAD><BODY></BODY></HTML>
to see if IE likes that better.
**** cjolley@[...].net <Carl Jolley>
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