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How to call a simple perl script from HTML without need of HTTPS but simple HTTP ?

I want to call a perl script myscript.pl in my cgi-bin from a HTML web page.
This call should NOT use SSI (because in this case HTTPS://.... protocol is necessary).
Furthermore NO button click should be required (so I am not talking about a perl script in a form).

I only want to call this script automatically when someone load the web page.

How can I do this ?

If necessary the perl script could return a value (e.g. a picture resp. text string) to the calling page.

Wladimir

Re: How to call a simple perl script from HTML without need of HTTPS but simple HTTP ?

Wladimir Borsov wrote:

> I want to call a perl script myscript.pl in my cgi-bin from a HTML web page.
> This call should NOT use SSI (because in this case HTTPS://.... protocol is necessary).
> Furthermore NO button click should be required (so I am not talking about a perl script in a form).
>
> I only want to call this script automatically when someone load the web page.
>
> How can I do this ?
>
> If necessary the perl script could return a value (e.g. a picture resp. text string) to the calling page.

You could use SSI (Server Side Includes) on unixoid systems:

<html>
<body>

</body>
</html>

Just don't forget to give your file the .shtml extension in stead of
..htm(l).

The output of /cgi-bin/script.pl will be displayed inside the webpage
that calls the script. (could be text, image, etc.)

Hope this helps,

--
Bart

Re: How to call a simple perl script from HTML without need of HTTPS but simple HTTP ?

Wladimir Borsov wrote:

> I want to call a perl script myscript.pl in my cgi-bin from a HTML web page.
> This call should NOT use SSI (because in this case HTTPS://.... protocol is necessary).
> Furthermore NO button click should be required (so I am not talking about a perl script in a form).
>
> I only want to call this script automatically when someone load the web page.
>
> How can I do this ?
>
> If necessary the perl script could return a value (e.g. a picture resp. text string) to the calling page.

Sorry, I overlooked SSI was not an option for you. (However, why
doesn't it work over HTTPS ? If you place yourscript.pl e.g. in the
same SSL-enabled directory, that should normally work)

I think there is no other way to call CGI from within HTML, at least
not a direct one.

Maybe

<p>Original page</p>
<iframe width="0" height="0" src="/cgi-bin/myscript.pl"
style="visibility:hidden; display:none; width:0px; height:0px">
</iframe>

You could then adjust the iframe's height/width if you know what kind
of output you're expecting from myscript.pl. Client side scripting (eg
javascript) could be helpful too in this scenario.

Hope this helps,

--
Bart

Re: How to call a simple perl script from HTML without need of HTTPS but simple HTTP ?

Wladimir Borsov wrote:

> I want to call a perl script myscript.pl in my cgi-bin from a HTML web page.
> This call should NOT use SSI (because in this case HTTPS://.... protocol is necessary).
> [...]

Misconception. Maybe you're confusing SSI (Server Side Inlcudes) with
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) ? SSL works over HTTPS, but has nothing to do
with SSI.

So maybe you can use SSI after all :-)

--
Bart

Re: How to call a simple perl script from HTML without need of HTTPS but simple HTTP ?

"Wladimir Borsov" <wladimirb@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:4462f7de$0$11064$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net...
> I want to call a perl script myscript.pl in my cgi-bin from a HTML web
page.
> This call should NOT use SSI (because in this case HTTPS://.... protocol
is necessary).

https and SSI are not incompatible or mutually exclusive, so I have no idea
why you place this restriction on yourself.

> Furthermore NO button click should be required (so I am not talking about
a perl script in a form).
>
> I only want to call this script automatically when someone load the web
page.

Then use Javascript.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Perl.

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