[CLUE-Tech] redirection question for Apache

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 04:50:52 -0000
jason at matchingmoms.com wrote:

> I want my home page to be generated by a perl script.  I'm using Red Hat
> 7.1
> and the Apache web server which came with that distribution.
<snip>
> else happens.  Does anyone know how to redirect the browser to another
> location (preferably without Javascript or some other client-side tool).

Well, the refresh tag ought to do it nicely. AFAICT, it will do the same
thing as a JavaScript body.onload event handler. Been around in the HTML
spec since, um, HTML 2.0? Just don't use a 0 second timeout, cuz that
really messes with people's ability to use the [back] button.

-- 
  If R is the set of all sets which don't contain themselves,
  does R contain itself? 

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jason at matchingmoms.com writes:

 > My default home page is /var/www/html/index.hmtl.  To test redirection using
 > the HTTP_EQUIV tag I created the following index.html:

It's HTTP-EQUIV (hyphen, not underscore).

Matt Gushee