Calling perl from a SSI

[Grant McLean]

One way to do it would be to include an image tag in your HTML like this:

<img src="http://your.domain/cgi-bin/yourscript.pl?any_params_from_js">

Then yourscript.pl can do what it needs to do before
redirecting to a 1 pixel transparent GIF (or PNG depending
on your patent position - and I believe yours is hanging on
the line for all to see :-)  ).

Grant


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Grant McLean        BearingPoint Inc - formerly The Web Limited
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gmclean at bearingpoint.biz                Wellington, New Zealand




 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Don Jones [mailto:don at gamma.net.nz]
 > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:20 PM
 > To: wellington-pm-list at pm.org
 > Subject: Calling perl from a SSI
 >
 >
 > Hi - Im not much of a web developer but an tryingto to
 > something you guys may
 > be able to help with:
 >
 > I want to run a perl script every time a certain html page is
 > accessed, the
 > script doesnt need to write anything back to the browser so
 > doesnt need to be
 > GCI but I want to pass it variables from the html page - some
 > of the variables
 > are javascript variables used in the html and others are just
 > the environment
 > variables HTTP_USER_AGENT & REMOTE_ADDR, it seems that either
 > i should make
 > the page a cgi - but it has quite a bit of java script in it
 > so this is not
 > that appealing, or I thought i could just call the perl
 > script using SSI exec
 > but im not sure you can pass args via SSI - does anyone know
 > how to do this?
 >
 > Am i missing some other obvious way of doing this?
 >
 > the perl script would just write a line to a log file using
 > the variables
 > passed to it.
 >
 > Ideas appreciated
 >
 > Don Jones
 >
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 >
 >