Include Perl script in an HTML page.

[cosports]

I cant for the life of me figure out why this does not work.

I have an HTML page with the following statments and neither work.

<!--#exec cgi=&quot;/cgi-bin/banman.pl?tourist&quot;-->

<p>

<!--#include virtual=&quot;cgi-bin/banman.pl?tourist&quot;-->

My script &quot;banman.pl&quot; runs fine if I call it from the
browser. the script itself retrieves data from a MySql DB
and displays a banner with a URL. I set the permissions for
each file to 777 just for the heck of it and that doesnt work either. Any suggestions? Thank you very much. Eric

 

[tiz]

Have you changed your HTML file extension from .html to .shtml? Are you sure your web server support Server Side Includes (.shtml)?

Tim --
Tim <tim@planetedge.co.uk>

 

[tsdragon]

How about this:

<img src=&quot;/cgi-bin/banman.pl?tourist&quot;>

Be sure the first thing banman.pl does is print the correct content type header for an image, for example:

print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";

Then banman.pl should just print the image file.
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[cosports]

thanks a ton. you guys rule. i haven't had a chance to
try it, but i bet its the Content-type tag.
the server i'm running on is down. I am using the shtml suffix.