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| author | Stephen P. Potter <spp@ds.net> | 2000-11-17 03:55:45 -0500 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-11-17 14:12:31 +0000 |
| commit | fd5506a077bcad1a714887ba822d57733519b964 (patch) | |
| tree | 231b4bb1bb5263d8de8ec3daac9840e22a29cee4 /pod/perlfaq9.pod | |
| parent | dcff5598d11d379862aa389fb4082130cd96d697 (diff) | |
| download | perl-fd5506a077bcad1a714887ba822d57733519b964.tar.gz | |
Fix for 20000409.001
Message-Id: <200011171355.IAA05104@spotter.yi.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7725
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfaq9.pod')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod index ddc577b01f..4c701cafde 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod @@ -224,13 +224,11 @@ available from CPAN. =head2 How do I redirect to another page? -Instead of sending back a C<Content-Type> as the headers of your -reply, send back a C<Location:> header. Officially this should be a -C<URI:> header, so the CGI.pm module (available from CPAN) sends back -both: +According to RFC 2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", the +preferred method is to send a C<Location:> header instead of a +C<Content-Type:> header: Location: http://www.domain.com/newpage - URI: http://www.domain.com/newpage Note that relative URLs in these headers can cause strange effects because of "optimizations" that servers do. |