Re: redirecting cgi via post method

On 02/16/2007 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
>   I have a CGI that receives some parameters, and after processing them 
> (it generates a file) it must be redirected to another CGI (external 
> domain) to process it.
> 
>   What I want to do is similar to
>     
> redirect("http://somedomain.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?param1=some&param2=stuff"); 
> 
> 
> but using POST method instead of GET.
> 
> 
> At first point, I imagine a solution with LWP::UserAgent using the POST 
> method for the new user agent; but later, I don't know how to be 
> redirected to the new address.
> 
>   my $ua_this = LWP::UserAgent->new;
>   $ua_this->post("http://somedomain.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi", [
>     param1 => "some",
>     param2 => "stuff"
>     ] );
> 
>  redirect($ua_this); # <-this? I don't think so
> 
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Alejandro

You probably want a status 307 redirect:

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

# You set the $location.

print CGI::header(
     -status => '307 Temporary Redirect',
     -location => $location,
);

__HTH__

HTTP Spec: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt