RE: Perl CGI redirect and Javascript question

[email protected] ("David Gray") Tue, 6 May 2003 09:09:04 -0400
Newsgroups perl.javascript
Organization Advent 3B2 - Projects Dept.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Blah,

>  test2_window.the_text_field.value = "some value"
> 
> The problem I am having is that in script1.pl, I do not know 
> how to associate the name "test2_window" with the window when 
> I open it using CGI:
> 
>  $query = new CGI;
>  print $query->redirect(-location=>"/mycgi/script2.pl");
> 
> How do I name a window when using a CGI redirect?  Thanks.

You don't need to - you can use opener instead of naming it.

 opener.text_field.value = "some value";

Cheers,
Dave