UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Problem with Netscape and Location header

I'm using an HTTP Location header to redirect to the URL of the same script, with the query string removed.

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my $q = CGI::->new();
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print $q->redirect(-url=>$q->url());

In Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1 this works as desired.

In Netscape Navigator 4.08 and 4.5 it results in a "document contains no data" error, as if Netscape doesn't understand the Location header, and expects the HTTP response to have content.

If I redirect to a different URL, it works fine in Netscape.

Any suggestions?

Does the program run in IE or do you get no error page? You have to turn on error return pages on scripts in IE.

Are you printing a regular header too ($q->header)?

If so, that could be the issue. I believe (don't remember for sure) that a redirect should be its own header.

--mark

C_P:

The script works correctly in IE.

Mark:

Only the location header is printed, e.g.,

Status: 302 Moved
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:26:26 GMT
Location: actual URL here

In case anyone's interested, I solved this by using a workaround based on a suggestion in a newsgroup.

I add a unique, dummy query string parameter to the URL:


It's ugly, but it works.