Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: Set a cookie, and still redirect?

Apr 7, 2004, 8:15 AM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2004, 8:15 AM

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Set a cookie, and still redirect?

Just wondering.. is it possible to set a cookie, and right after, redirect to another URL?

i.e

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my $cookie = $IN->cookie( -name => "PPC3".$ID, -value => "TRUE", -expires => "+1h"); 
print $IN->header( -cookie => $cookie ); 
print $IN->redirect ($goto);

The problem I am having, is that as soon as the cookie is set, a header must have been set? It just doesn't seem to want to redirect to the new URL :(

Is there a way around this?

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Apr 7, 2004, 9:59 AM

dan

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Apr 7, 2004, 9:59 AM

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Re: [Andy] Set a cookie, and still redirect? In reply to

How about the following:

print $IN->redirect( -URL => $goto, -COOKIE => $cookie );

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:02 AM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:02 AM

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Would that work?

I ended up showing a message, with 'redirecting', and then using meta tags to redirect to the appropriate URL :)

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:04 AM

dan

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:04 AM

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Should work. Give it a whirl. Neater than using an intervening redirect page.

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:10 AM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:10 AM

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Thanks, that did the trick :)

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:13 AM

dan

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:13 AM

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Excellent. Unfortunately, as far as I know when I last checked, not documented in the CGI module docs - not explicitly anyways.

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:16 AM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2004, 10:16 AM

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Yeah, thats always a bugger. I search for *hours* trying to find out how to do it.. thats why I finally gave up, and just used meta redirects Blush

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Andy (mod)
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Apr 7, 2004, 1:38 PM

Watts

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Apr 7, 2004, 1:38 PM

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Re: [Andy] Set a cookie, and still redirect? In reply to

FYI if any of your end-users complain about that particular page "hanging" or "timing-out", be aware that there is a security setting in IE called "Allow META REFRESH" that sometimes get's turned off and that keeps the new page from loading.

Spent about an hour trying to de-bug that one Tongue

Apr 7, 2004, 11:55 PM

Andy

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Apr 7, 2004, 11:55 PM

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Thanks, I'll make a note of that.. as I'm sure it will come up at some point :(

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