SPUG: Using HTML as GUI

Jay Scherrer jay at scherrer.com
Thu Jul 24 21:50:24 CDT 2003


On Thursday 24 July 2003 05:52 pm, Asim Jalis wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:49:27PM -0700, Shawn Wagner wrote:
> > Enough depressing talk. Can we have more perl questions? :)
>
> I have written a small Perl application that does some number
> crunching and it's a command line utility. Command line tools
> look awful on Windows. So I was thinking of prettying it up with
> a GUI. The simplest thing here seemed to put it into the
> c:\inetpub\scripts directory, wrap some HTML around it and then
> run it as a localhost CGI script (through IIS). This works well
> since HTML is Perl's GUI.
>
> Here's the problem in this happy story. What if the machine does
> not have IIS? How do I run this as a localhost CGI script in that
> case? Are there tiny web servers that can be configured to just
> run a single (Perl) program? I want to keep the machine secure,
> and at the same time use a local web server as a cheap way to get
> a GUI.
>
> Any ideas? Also are there any issues I should be aware of that I
> am not thinking about?
>
>
> Asim
The Perl Cookbook has a sample script running a test web server as a socket. I 
always wondered if this would work for distributed programs. Could this work?
Jay

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