From mraley_2000 at yahoo.com  Fri May  9 12:26:59 2003
From: mraley_2000 at yahoo.com (Mark Raley)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:25:48 2004
Subject: [Boulder.pm] Flash 5 Perl interface
Message-ID: <20030509172659.17780.qmail@web21403.mail.yahoo.com>

Is there anyone that can help with me with a Flash 5 / Perl interface
question. I am trying to create a form in Flash 5 that will send
information to my server (Win NT) and store the information in a text
file. The server has Perl installed.  I have already created a small Perl
script that will parse the information and write it to a file. I tested
this Perl script with some HTML code. The HTML code consists of a form
that sends one variable to the Perl script. When I try to create the form
in Flash, I am having difficulty. 

This seems like it should be very easy to do. I have tried many examples
that I have found on the web without any success.

If you would like to help, I can send you the source code of what I have
done so far.

Thanks

Mark


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From fibonaci at babylonia.flatirons.org  Fri May  9 13:14:13 2003
From: fibonaci at babylonia.flatirons.org (Luke Palmer)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:25:48 2004
Subject: [Boulder.pm] Flash 5 Perl interface
In-Reply-To: <20030509172659.17780.qmail@web21403.mail.yahoo.com> (message from Mark Raley on Fri, 9 May 2003 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT))
References: <20030509172659.17780.qmail@web21403.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <ygcsmrovvgq.fsf@babylonia.flatirons.org>

> Is there anyone that can help with me with a Flash 5 / Perl interface
> question. I am trying to create a form in Flash 5 that will send
> information to my server (Win NT) and store the information in a text
> file. The server has Perl installed.  I have already created a small Perl
> script that will parse the information and write it to a file. I tested
> this Perl script with some HTML code. The HTML code consists of a form
> that sends one variable to the Perl script. When I try to create the form
> in Flash, I am having difficulty. 
> 
> This seems like it should be very easy to do. I have tried many examples
> that I have found on the web without any success.
> 
> If you would like to help, I can send you the source code of what I have
> done so far.

Hmm, I did some of this at my previous job.  I don't (*can't) have
Flash 5 installed here, but IIRC, GetUrl takes parameters that tell it
whether to post its variables.

Why don't you try activating that option and then writing a little CGI
script that will dump everything passed to it, so you know what you're
looking for?  Flash 5 has some strange conventions as I recall.

Luke