Running Perl Script On Page Load

[Qamgine]

I have written a perl counter. My problem is to run the script and have the contents appear on my home page? Could someone please tell me how to do this.

Thank you in Advance.

 

[tsdragon]

One of the easiest ways to do this is to call your counter program from an image tag on the page like this:

<img src=&quot;/cgi-bin/counter.pl&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;>

Then your counter program must output a 1x1 pixel transparent gif file (with appropriate header) as the last thing it does, like this subroutine does:

sub PrintPixel {
   my(@bytes) = (71,73,70,56,57,97,1,0,1,0,128,0,0,255,255,255,0,0,0,33,249,4,5,20,0,0,0,44,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,2,2,68,1,0,59);
   print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
   print pack('C*', @bytes);
   return 1;
}

Tracy Dryden
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