> > Yet enabling "PerlSendHeader On" and doing: > > > > print "Location: $newurl\n\n"; > > > > works fine. > > What are the complete headers that sends? I'm guessing it sends a 200 > status and it only works because your browser is broken and follows the > redirect anyway.
No, it does convert the Location header into a 302 response, although it doesn't add the body content like returning a 302 in the main request does. >>>>> HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:31:55 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.10-16 mod_perl/1.29 Set-Cookie: Apache=127.0.0.1.155421142861522485; path=/; expires=Sat, 16-Sep-06 13:31:55 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Location: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 0 Connection closed by foreign host. <<<<< Carl
