CGI output to null?

[Thom White]

Hi, I hope someone can help with this - I'm rubbish at programming, and
I'm stuck......

I use a (perl) CGI script to collect form data on our website, and email
it to me. When it collects the data, it shows a thankyou.html page to
the visitor. No problem.

Now, I want to alter this script so that it doesn't send anything back
(it will be accessed from an HTML email), but if I strip out the:

print "Location: /thanks.html", "\n\n";

...line, I get an Internal Server Error.

Is there a way I can satisfy the script's need to reply, but send the
information to Null, or whatever? Help?

Thom

 

[Tintin]

Hi, I hope someone can help with this - I'm rubbish at programming, and
I'm stuck......

I use a (perl) CGI script to collect form data on our website, and email
it to me. When it collects the data, it shows a thankyou.html page to the
visitor. No problem.

Now, I want to alter this script so that it doesn't send anything back (it
will be accessed from an HTML email), but if I strip out the:

print "Location: /thanks.html", "\n\n";

..line, I get an Internal Server Error.

Is there a way I can satisfy the script's need to reply, but send the
information to Null, or whatever? Help?

Not a Perl question (apart from the use of 'print', which I'm sure you can
handle).

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

 

[Thom White]

Not a Perl question (apart from the use of 'print', which I'm sure you can
handle).

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

Thanks - I'll give it a go.

Thom

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Not a Perl question (apart from the use of 'print', which I'm sure you can
handle).

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";

That results in blank page, doesn't it?

I think it's this the OP is after:

print "Status: 204 No Content\n\n";

 

[Thom White]

That results in blank page, doesn't it?

I think it's this the OP is after:

print "Status: 204 No Content\n\n";

This also results in a blank page.

Meh, I've stopped fighting it - I've gone back to letting the form
return an HTML response.

Thanks though.

Thom