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Hi - delaying page redirection?

ee91gg
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Apr 21, 2000, 10:30 AM

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Hi - delaying page redirection?	Can't Post

Hi again, another query,
i'm currently designing a sophisticated Chat Board. I want my script to serve some tailored html, wait a few seconds, then move back to the main page automatically. <meta... refresh url...> doesn't work of course. Getting the script to print Location: $url doesn't either because the script has already served html. I've tried putting;

sleep 5;
print "Location: $url";

in a separate script and executing that from by origional script, but that doesn't work either. Is there any way it can be done? Is perl magical enough?

ee91gg
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Apr 20, 2000, 10:24 PM

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Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks again cure, your an absolute star, you must pop in and say hello once i've finished my website.......

........but;

how exactly can you code those "" 's into a print command? The man pages din't seem to be very helpful in that respect. I've tried using the ascii 022 (as \022) but it's the wrong character. Any ideas?

Cure
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Apr 21, 2000, 8:30 AM

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Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi

you couldnt get the refresh tag to work? try it this way

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="4;URL=xxxxx.html">

Cure

Cure
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Apr 21, 2000, 1:05 PM

Post #4 of 8 (508 views)

Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi

Im lost on this part-->[how exactly can you code those "" 's into a print command?]

Can you explain, so I can help.

bye the way,-> you think I'm an absolute star --> thxs-> I really appreciate the compliment.

Cure

ee91gg
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Apr 21, 2000, 1:46 PM

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Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

What i mean is, if i try running;

print " <html><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="4;URL=xxxxx.html"> ";

i get errors on my system saying that it does not regognise;

Refresh" content="4;URL=xxxxx.html"> "

because when it parses the second " it thinks it has come to the end of the print command. Surely i need to use an escape sequence \somenumber to encode the " 's within the print statement?

brian.hayes
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Apr 21, 2000, 1:52 PM

Post #6 of 8 (508 views)

Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Try this.

print qq~
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="4\;URL=xxxxx.html">
~;

Brian Hayes

[This message has been edited by brian.hayes (edited 04-21-2000).]

[This message has been edited by brian.hayes (edited 04-21-2000).]

ee91gg
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Apr 21, 2000, 2:09 PM

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Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

thanks brian, that's really useful

Cure
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Apr 21, 2000, 4:18 PM

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Re: Hi - delaying page redirection? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi

There is more than one way to quote a quote. Have you heard of escaping
characters like "a \"quote\" in a string"? Or other ways that avoid all those escapes like qq using any character or bracket type not in the string to mark each end:

print qq(<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="4;URL=xxxxx.html"> );

or

print qq!(<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" content="4;URL=xxxxx.html">!;

and etc.

Cure

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