URL Redirection in CGI

[kavin]

Hi
How to redirect to a url of a site's particular page.I had tried like this in my prog. Is it correct?

Redirection url:
http://www.gmail.com/login.cgi?LOGIN=abc&PASSWORD=123&domain=google.com &page=inbox

The problem that I am facing is that it takes gmail site but not using the parameters in the url(LOGIN=abc&PASSWORD=123&domain=google.com&page= inbox).

Any help will be greatly appreciable!!!!!!!!!!!

[GunnarH]

I don't think you have a redirection problem.

There are Perl modules that might be useful to you: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=gmail

[kavin]

Hi
It is not a specific to gmail ,I would like to do it for general.........I have used LWP::Simple module and its get() method..........can you provide me a better solution for this issue.................

[GunnarH]

I haven't understood what "this issue" is. Make a better effort to explain what it is you want to accomplish. Also, post a short but complete script, that we can copy and run, and that demonstrates the problem you are having.

[geek491]

Hi
How to redirect to a url of a site's particular page.I had tried like this in my prog. Is it correct?

Redirection url:
http://www.gmail.com/login.cgi?LOGIN...com&page=inbox

The problem that I am facing is that it takes gmail site but not using the parameters in the url(LOGIN=abc&PASSWORD=123&domain=google.com&page= inbox).

Any help will be greatly appreciable!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi


url redirection is very easy

suppose u have a cgi program called home.pl which displays home page...but now u want the users to goto yahoo home page everytime they try to access the home.pl page.. to do this u need to change the code of home.pl to this

#!c:\perl\bin\perl
 
use CGI;
my $co = new CGI();
 
$co->redirect('http://www.yahoo.com');
 

####################################

this will do the job for u.
geek491

[kavin]

Hi
Thanks for your suggestion............

But if I need my cgi script to redirect to the inbox page of my Yahoo mail(providing username and password in redirecting url), then what will be the solution??

[geek491]

Hi
Thanks for your suggestion............

But if I need my cgi script to redirect to the inbox page of my Yahoo mail(providing username and password in redirecting url), then what will be the solution??

unfortuanately yahoo encrypts the parameters before it sends it...so u cant use simple redirection like

http://yahoomail.co.in/user=abc,password=abc

it wont work... a session id which is created is unique and cant be replicated using url.

[lordspace]

hi,

browser uses HTTPS when sending user and password to google site and receives some auth cookies.

about the redirection, here is my suggestion:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Location: http://domain.com\n\n";
 

Svet