NAME

CGI::Application::Plugin::Redirect - Easy external redirects in CGI::Application

SYNOPSIS

 package My::App;

 use CGI::Application::Plugin::Redirect;

 sub cgiapp_prerun {
     my $self = shift;

     if ( << not logged in >> ) {
         return $self->redirect('login.html');
     }
 }

 sub byebye {
     my $self = shift;

     return $self->redirect('http://www.example.com/', '301 Moved Permanently');
 }

DESCRIPTION

This plugin provides an easy way to do external redirects in CGI::Application. You don't have to worry about setting headers or worrying about return types, as that is all handled for you.

"redirect" does an external redirect, which means that the browser will receive a command to load a new page, and a fresh request will come in. If you just want to display the results of another runmode within the same module, then it is often sufficient to use the "forward" method in CGI::Application::Plugin::Forward instead.

METHODS

redirect($url, $status)

Interupt the current request, and redirect to an external URL. If you happen to be inside a prerun method when you call this, the current runmode will automatically be short circuited so that it will not execute. As soon as all prerun method have finished, the redirect will happen without the runmode being executed.

The $status paramater is optional as the CGI module will default to something suitable.

  return $self->redirect('http://www.example.com/');

  - or -

  return $self->redirect('http://www.example.com/', '301 Moved Permanently');

AUTHOR

Cees Hek <ceeshek@gmail.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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