change which program user is looking at

[Adeola Awoyemi]

On 21 Oct 2008, at 14:38, Denny wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 06:31 -0700, HermannJens at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2008 3:23pm, Denny <london.pm at metamathics.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 15:10 +0200, Hermann Ingjaldsson wrote:
>>>> How do i change (in code) which program the user is looking at?
>>> print "Please look at a different program now.\n";
>>
>> (:
>> no then the user has to do it himself.
>>
>> is there no way of doing whatever the user can do... through code?
>
> Sometimes.  I'm not really sure what your original question is asking
> though - do you mean changing which application has focus in a desktop
> environment, or changing which program is running on a command line,  
> or
> something else?
>
> It sounds like you might want to script the window manager or desktop
> environment - that's going to work differently on each WM/DE  
> combination
> - consult the WM and DE docs for initial info, see if they have Perl
> bindings.
>

I think you want something like:

print "Location: /cgi-bin/foo.cgi\n\n";

But if you mean in the client-side then you want javascript:

javascript:location.reload('/new-location.html');

Or even with a <meta/> refresh?

The choice is yours.

Adeola.