I have a script, and it works well, but there is a problem when redirecting the user, this is the piece o the code with error

sub enviar {

open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t") | | die "Can´t open Mail Prog $mailprog";
print MAIL "To: $meu_nome <$meu_email>\n";
print MAIL "From: $form{'nome'} <$form{'email'}>\n";
print MAIL "Subject: subject\n\n";
print MAIL "Message.\n";
close (MAIL);

open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t") &#0124; &#0124; die "Can´t open Mail Prog $mailprog";
print MAIL "To: $form{'nome'} <$form{'email'}\n";
print MAIL "From: Name <mail\@mail.com>\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Pedido\n\n";
print MAIL "\n Thank you. ";
close (MAIL);

print "Location: http://www.geocities.com/~tmoretti\n\n";
}

The error is "malformed header name=xxx" where xxx is the input name of the person.. Can someone help?

I think this:


should look like this:


See, if it works.


Regards,

Pasha

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Hi Pasha. It didn´t worked? Do you have any other idea?

Try:


%7E represents the hexadecimal equivalent of the "~" character.

I hope this helps.

The problem is, I changed the URL, now it's www.buscabr.com and I can't get it working.. Do you want I post the complete code here?

Try:


I added the first line because it may be necessary if it was not done before calling the subroutine.

I hope this helps.


[This message has been edited by Bobsie (edited April 21, 1999).]

 
This is a sendmail error, probably caused by this line:


Note, no closing > for the email. You will also get this error if somebody enters in an invalid email address.

Hope this helps,

Alex

Thank you. The problem was what Alex said. I forgot to close > the emails....

Bobsie:
It worked without the content-type. Why? Should I put it or not?

Howdy,

I'd appreciate if someone would clarify this for me too please. I've seen print Location posted several times on this forum and quite a lot of the time with the Content-type header before it. I was under the impression that if you print a Location header after a Content-type header, the browser has already been told that it's text or HTML that's a-comin', so it just prints the Location header out as text.

Aren't they two totally different things? Or do they work differently on different systems or something? I don't use Content-type before a Location header on either Win95 or BSDI3 and it works grand...

Cheers,
adam

       I didn´t understand this too. Sometimes, people says to use it, sometimes they say it´s not to use it. I don´t know if I should use it or not.

If the header, Content-type: text/html\n\n is printed someplace in the script before the subroutine in question is called, then it is not needed in the subroutine provided another header (maybe specifying text/plain) did not change things.

This header tells the browser what to expect next. Since print "Location: http://www.buscabr.com/\n"; involves html, we must tell the browser to expect it before it is printed so that it is interpreted correctly. If we wanted just to display the source of something, say a script file, then the header would say:


You would then open the cgi script file, read and print each line to the screen.

Does that explain it?

Bobsie,

I unnerstand how the content-type headers work,I was just curious about using it with a location header.

I've just tested this locally and on my webspace and what I said is exactly what happens. If I send the content-type header before the location one, it just prints it as text.

I'm not saying you're wrong, maybe it's something to do with the OS or the Perl version, but that's the way it works for me. Can anybody clarify this? I'm asking because I've even seeing Alex posting it with the content-type, so there's obviously gonna be some confusion...

Here's the tests on my server:

dotcgi.com/demos/location/

Cheers,
adam

Ok, that´s explained. But why it works without printing the content-type anywhere in the script? I just put the "Location: URL\n\n" and it works..