perl embedded in html?

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ok, here's my question... for those who know javascript, you know you can just insert a little piece of code basically anywhere on your page with a <script> tag. can you do the same with cgi/perl??? thanks.

-benc

Ben C
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think u may be talking bout ssi. if ur host allows it may do what u want.

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As Fairhousing was saying, you can use SSI. So you could put:

<!--#execute cgi="script.cgi"-->

You could also try using
<script src="script.cgi"></script>.

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wow really? for some reason i didn't think you could do ssi w/ cgi... welp, i'll go check on that now. thanks

-benc

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I dont see how <script src...

would work, unless the output of the cgi would be of the MIME type "text/javascript"

Later,

Malte

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Without using SSI to include the CGI scripts you CAN embed Perl directly into the HTML document if your server/host supports EPerl (Embedded Perl). Contact your host to see if they support it. If not, send them to: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/eperl/

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Malte, yup forgot to tell that. If you were to use <script src=....></script> when you printed text you would need to use
document.write(TEXT HERE')

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There is such a thing as Perlscript. It's not widely used on the client side because in order to use it, the client must have a perl compiler installed on his/her computer. It is rather popular though for Apache, which has a module that allows ASP through Perlscript. Go to http://perlscripters.com , you'd be surprised at the amount of Perlscript resources there are out there.

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Gil Hildebrand, Jr.
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