From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2002-09-16T06:09:21+09:00
Subject: RE: ruby HTTP redirect?

Hi,
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> I'm new to Ruby, only used Perl and PHP before.

Welcome!


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> I know there is no method "header" (as in PHP) or "redirect" in Ruby's CGI
> class, but I need to know how to do HTTP redirects in Ruby.
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> Any suggestions?

The raw text way:

 def redirect( new_page )
    print "HTTP/1.1 302 OK\r\n"
    print "Location:#{new_page}\n\n"
  end


The CGI way (off the top of my head)

cgi =  CGI.new("html4")
cgi.header("Location" => "/some/other/page")



James

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> Thanks in advance!
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