Simple newbie question

how to get script to jump to another webpage

[Neorio]

I've just written a small perl mailer script. After the script mails the administrator the data, I want the script to jump out to another webpage (which shows a thankyou message).

How do you do this in Perl?

[myself]

The simpliest way is to print one line: http-header that will redirect user's browser:

print "Location: [site.some...]

Note that the line befor (as a part of http-header) have to be printed before any output of the script. In our simple case the script should not print something else.

[Neorio]

Cheers, that's saved me a few headaches!

much appreciated.

[kroikie]

hi people;
i understand the ans given above and agree with it but if the user were to press or click back what would happen then?

[IanKelley]

Pressing the back button would bring them to the page before the one that did the redirect.

Since the redirect is happening without any output, this would not be a problem.