Re: redirecting cgi via post method

You may also want to check out the WWW::Mechanize module this will do what your 
looking for.

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mumia W." <[email protected]>
To: "Beginners CGI" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:49 PM
Subject: 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
>
>
>
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