I am trying to pass a variable in the redirect string, ie abc123, where the url value is in a hash that i want to extract, and then redirect to the corresponding url, but i am unsure as how to pull this value from the hash to pass it on .......

How are you passing the variable into the URL?



Paul Wilson.
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)

I hacked this together, but being a perl rookie, i would like to see what other methods would work. to pass the variable i did this:
www.blahblah.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?link=abc123
then this variable 'abc123' then has to grab the correct value from the hash.

Could you show me more of the code you are using.

Paul Wilson.
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)

this is the code that i used to make it work, turned out to be easier than i thought ... heh heh
*********** hash ****************
%goto_values = (
abc123_01 => "http://www.xxx.com/page1.html",
abc123_02 => "http://www.xxx.com/page2.html",
abc123_survey => "http://www.xxx.com/emailers/link.html"
);
************* end hash **************

$link = $goto_values{$fields{'link'}};

print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print ("Location: $link\n\n");

just take out the print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

you're not suppose to print headers when you redirect

Jerry Su
widgetz sucks

it seems to work fine, so can you tell me why there should be no headers?
thanks

Its because you arent printing any text on the page, you are re-directing to another URL.

Paul Wilson.
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)