How to call another CGI in PERL 2

[darkom]

My CGI needs to call another CGI program without user intervention so my question is how can I do this ?<br><br>Is there a function or module that can do the job ?

 

[goBoating]

Your question is quite vague.&nbsp;&nbsp;I can't give you a specific response.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe someone else sees more in the question than I do.<br>A piece of CGI is just like any other piece of PERL.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you want to call another program, just do it.&nbsp;&nbsp;See &quot;<b>backticks&quot;, &quot;system&quot;, and &quot;exec</b>&quot;ute funtions via<br>perldoc or on the web or in a book. <br>Or, ask here again with a little more detail.....like what is the second piece of code doing?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is it printing to the same client browser?&nbsp;&nbsp;Is it doing house keeping on the server?&nbsp;&nbsp;or What?&nbsp;&nbsp;Note that there are significant differences in how you use backticks and the system and exec functions.&nbsp;&nbsp;Be aware that making system calls of any sort in CGI stuff can create serious security issues (read problems).

 

[darkom]

Ok here it is: <br><br>I have a CGI program that displays a html page while it's doing some functions. The page says ONE MOMENT PLEASE !.<br>I would like to display another page when the functions are finished, that says OPERATION SUCCESFULL ! or a page that says THE FOLLOWING FUNCTIONS DID NOT WORK !.<br><br>By using EXEC(), to call the other page when the functions are finished, nothing happens.<br><br>I hope that it is clearer this time.

 

[Hasenmyer]

If the first script does everything you want it to (displays the message and then handles whatever functionality you want), you could just print a redirect statement after the final function exectues, to send the browser to a new page or CGI... since the page is already loaded, you could print javascript relocation code:<br><br>&lt;script langus=&quot;JavaScript&quot;&gt;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;location.href=&quot;somenewscript.cgi&quot;<br>&lt;/script&gt;<br><br>...and that should forward the browser to the new cgi. if all you want is static text on that page, you may as well forward to an HTML document.<br><br>Hope this helps!