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writing a cgi to redirect to another webpage

Hey folks. I don't know an ounce of perl, and my c is pretty weak, but I need to write a couple of cgis. So, my idea was that I could have a simple cgi that would call a shell script (something I can do! :)) and then redirect to a webpage, say, mypage.html. I understand that I could use something like this (with perl) for the former:

@output = `/bin/sh /home/matt/scripts/script.sh`;

or

system("/bin/sh /home/matt/scripts/script.sh");

Now, script.sh is going to generate mypage.html, so I'd like the cgi to there. Is there a good and simple way to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Justin

Not that fully understand what you are asking, but here is cgi script writtin in sh that will do anything you want then redirect you somewhere else. This is untested.

Code:

#!/bin/sh



# do whatever



echo Content-type: text/html

echo



cat << EOF



<HTML>



<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; url=http://www.cnn.com">



</HTML>

Oh, that works! I didn't realize you could use a shell script for a cgi. I had tried, but I guess I had mistyped something.

Thanks, even better than what I'd asked for! :)

Justin