Re: Redirecting to a new URL under mod_ruby

Okay, I figured it out one way to do it, stolen from here: 

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/50294
 
The following seems to work fine instead of the print statement: 
 
q.header("Location" => caller_url)
 
Thanks,
Nick
 
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:22:02 -0700, Nick Bicknell wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>  
>>  I'm using Ruby 1.8.1 with mod_ruby 1.2 under apache 1.3.2x on Mac os 
>>  X 10.3.4.  
>>  
>>  I have a cgi script that looks like this: 
>>  
>>  #!/usr/bin/ruby
>>  
>>  require "cgi"
>>  
>>  q = CGI.new
>>  caller_url = q.referer.gsub( /(.*)\?*.*/, '\1' )
>>  
>>  # do some work here.... 
>>  
>>  print "Location: #{caller_url}\n\n"
>>  
>>  What I am trying to accomplish is to have the cgi script do a little 
>>  work (e.g., delete a record from the database, or add one, etc.) and 
>>  to then redirect the browser automatically to a new URL, in this 
>>  case, the one that called it.  The issue is that the above code 
>>  doesn't seem to work - it just prints the text "Location: 
>>  http://etc/etc/"
>>  
>>  Any advice would be most appreciated.
>>  
>>  Thanks,
>>  Nick
>>