LPM: Text::Template and server-side includes in HTML files

[Frank Price]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:34:41PM -0400, Gregg Casillo wrote:
> I've come up against this problem more and more recently: I use
> Text::Template to plug some data into an HTML page and spit it out to
> the browser. However, the static HTML page has several server-side
> includes (and sometimes these includes have more includes nested within
> them) in it which Text::Template does not seem to handle.
> 
> Does anyone who uses Text::Template know of a way around this without
> getting rid of the server-side includes?

I thought CGI-generated pages couldn't use SSIs as such b/c the page
went directly to the browser without the httpd ever seeing it.  So the
web server never has a chance to expand the include.  Or at least
that's the rationale I dreamed up when I could never make it work.

I've done my own cheap SSIs like this (from within the perl script):
   open(SSI, "header.ssi");
   print $_ while (<SSI>);
   close SSI;

Would be interested to know if you find a better way...

-Frank.
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