On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Robert Landrum wrote:
> The problem is that Apache does not put the "Set-Cookie" before the
> "Location" when generating headers. To fix this, you need to build
> the header yourself. I've found that this works with Netscape and
> IE, but with IE, the place where you redirect to does not have access
> to the cookie that you just set. All subsequent pages are able to
> read the cookie... It's a bug in IE.
>
>
> my $cookie = Apache::Cookie->new($r,
> -name => "MYCOOKIE",
> -value => "VALUE",
> -path => "/some/cookie/path"
> );
>
> my %headers = (
> "Location" => "/some/redirect/location",
I'd like to mention that the Location header MUST be absolute, NEVER
relative. Absolute means that it must include the scheme!
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2068/rfc2068
14.30 Location
The Location response-header field is used to redirect the recipient
to a location other than the Request-URI for completion of the
request or identification of a new resource. For 201 (Created)
responses, the Location is that of the new resource which was created
by the request. For 3xx responses, the location SHOULD indicate the
server's preferred URL for automatic redirection to the resource. The
field value consists of a single absolute URL.
Location = "Location" ":" absoluteURI
An example is
Location: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html
-jwb
