Piping a Javascript prompt to a scalar

Arthur Corliss corliss at sinbad.net
Fri Apr 2 17:44:38 CST 1999


Fred Steinberg wrote:
> 
> 
> It doesn't work that way a'tall; by the time the Javascript is executing
> (in the browser), your perl script (running on the server) has exited.

I replied to this, too, but ironically only sent it to Kevin, not the
list.  However, I had wondered something, not knowing javascript--can
you have the javascript perform a http POST?  If so, then a simple
multi-form cgi would do the trick.

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