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How to start Perl application form HTML document, with Internet Explorer
without installed Apache Web server?

Katharina wrote:

> How to start Perl application form HTML document, with Internet Explorer
> without installed Apache Web server?


Internet Explorer cannot execute CGI scripts.


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Katharina schreef:

> How to start Perl application form HTML document, with Internet
> Explorer without installed Apache Web server?

I assume: s/form/from/

This is a way:

Perl should be installed locally (on the machine where the browser is
running).

Make the link in the HTML-document point to an existing local file, like
file://C:/perl/eg/example.pl

If you see a flashing black box where you expected some output, add a
line to the Perl application that makes it wait for a while and/or a key
stroke, before returning.

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Brian Wakem:
> Katharina:

>> How to start Perl application form HTML document, with Internet
>> Explorer without installed Apache Web server?
>
> Internet Explorer cannot execute CGI scripts.

Well, I have seen it run sed code:
http://lvogel.free.fr/jsed/index.html

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Katharina wrote:

> How to start Perl application form HTML document, with Internet Explorer
> without installed Apache Web server?

I'm guessing that what you want to do is run a Perl CGI script on a
machine that does not have Apache installed.

If I am correct, you will need to have a web server running on the
machine where the Perl script is to be run as a CGI script.

"Dr.Ruud" <rvtol+> writes:

> Brian Wakem:
>>
>> Internet Explorer cannot execute CGI scripts.
>
> Well, I have seen it run sed code:
> http://lvogel.free.fr/jsed/index.html

Embedding code in <script> elements is not the same as CGI, and IE can run
Perl code the same way, if you have Active State's ActivePerl installed.

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Katharina wrote:
> How to start Perl application form HTML document, with Internet
> Explorer without installed Apache Web server?

The way you phrased your question it doesn't make any sense.

You start a Perl script interactively bey entering its name on the command
line or maybe by clicking on the icon in a GUI or programatically from
another application, etc.

HTML forms do not start any program and neither does IE (well, except for
ActiveX Controls). What they do is submit an HTTP request to a web server
and wait for response.
Just think about it: someone could write a simple HTML document, that would
be able to launch any program like e.g. "format" or "rm". Would you want to
use a browser that allows that?

As for the Apache Web server: you don't need Apache to run Perl applications
or to run IE or to view HTML forms. For submitting HTML forms you need to
connect to some web server somewhere, but that has nothing to do with Perl.

Therefore the way you combined those four components in your question (Perl,
HTML forms, IE, Apache) doesn't make sense because they have nothing to do
with each other.

I am sensing an X-Y problem here. You want to solve problem X, believe that
Y is the best way to do it, and therefore you are asking about how to do Y.
What is th original X that you are trying to solve? Chances are it is much
easier to solve that problem than the riddle of your question Y above.

jue