pearl redirection

[munna_dude]

hi all
how can i redirect an url to othe
i foung this code by googling

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Perl script redirect to another http/ftp url or a page 
# You can call perl script as follows:
#
# A) Redirect to url cyberciti.biz 
# http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rd?url=http://cyberciti.biz/
#
# B) To call perl script from html page as javascript 
# (put in your html file, note o=js option at the END):
# <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" 
#   src="http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/rd.pl?url=http://cyberciti.biz/&o=js"
# </script>
# -----------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2005 Vivek G Gite <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This perl script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# ------------------------------------------------

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;

# new CGI 
my $q = CGI->new( );
my $error;
# get url param
my $rdurl = $q->param("url");

# output can be 
# js - for javascript, to create javascript based redirection so you can use script from HTML pages
# make sure o param is in lowercase :)
my $output = lc($q->param("o")); 

# make sure url passed as url=http://somewhere.com/page.html
if ( $q->param('url') eq "" ){
  print $q->header();
  print $q->start_html(-title=>"Error URL missing");
  $error = "URL missing, you must run this script http://" .  $ENV{'SERVER_NAME'} . $ENV{'SCRIPT_NAME'} ;
  $error .= "?url=http://abc.com/somepage.html<BR>";
  $error .= "I will redirect a page/url to http://abc.com/somepage.html";
  print $error;
  print $q->end_html();
}
else{ # redirect to a page 
    if ( $output eq "" || $output eq "html" ){
       print $q->redirect( -URL => $rdurl);
    }
    else { 
      # do javascript based redirection / a page
      # Send fresh header or sky will fall on you :P
      print $q->header(); 
      # do a page redirection with javascript 
      print "window.location=\"$rdurl\";\n\n";
    }
}

is this the way to redirect?
i am usinf Fedora5.
i would like to know this concept.

can you please help me

thank you in advance

[likwid]

Please clarify what you want to get done.

[munna_dude]

Please clarify what you want to get done.

hi
i would like to redirect an url to other.

is there any process with pearl or bash or ruby or c language
if yes please help me.

thank you in advance

[likwid]

That's what this script does... I don't understand what the advantage of using this instead of a Redirect directive in apache is, but I am not the master of web apps or anything.