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2011-07-11 20:48, Jerry Pereira wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to know if there is a way to change the URL displayed on
> browser without using Redirect option. The URL visible on client browser
> must be based on some condition that is evaluated in my mod_perl handler.
>
> For example -
>
> 1. User types the URL - www.example.com <http://www.example.com/>, this will display the login page.
> 2. Once the user enters the credentials and hits submit, the request is
> posted to www.example.com/login <http://www.example.com/login> action.
> 3. If the credentials entered by the user is valid then i would like to show
> the home page..uri
> 4. I am able to show the homw page, but the URL does not change to
> www.example.com/home <http://www.example.com/home>, instead it remains the same (i.e.
> www.example.com/login <http://www.example.com/login>). I am using Template toolkit to render my pages. I
> tried $req->url('/home'), but that does not change the browser URI.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.

Telling the browser to fudge the URL is a client side thing. There is support for this in HTML5, with varying support in different browsers.

One starting point could be this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4015613/good-tutorial-for-using-html5-history-api-pushstate


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