[Catalyst] forward not working with Apache web server

[Matt S Trout]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:55:34PM -0500, Berk Birand wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have been using Catalyst for about 2 months, and I thought I had a 
> good grasp of how things worked. Yet I am facing a problem right now and 
> I'm clueless as to how to deal with it.
> 
> I use the built-in server to do my development, and then use Apache as 
> the main server. For this specific problem, the built-in server behaves 
> as expected, but Apache doesn't. I have some code where the Controller 
> first uses "$c->forward()" to redirect to another action, and then uses 
> "$c->response->redirect" to redirect the page flow.
> 
> Although the outputs from the "Action trace" suggests that the forward 
> does happen, when I add print statements, they are definitely not 
> printed with Apache. The final redirection works in both occasions.

Go for $c->log so it ends up in the error log.

print statements without a provided filehandle are likely to go down the
pipe to the client instead.

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