SSI - Trouble calling the code 1

[JennyW]

Hi there,

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Is it possible to use an SSI call from within a .pl or .cgi file to call some plain text/links (.txt file)?

The .txt file is outside of the cgi-bin.
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Bye,
Jenny

 

[tsdragon]

I don't think so. Usually SSI are processed by the web server when it sees that the file being requested has a .shtml extension, or .html if that's the way the web server was set up. Unfortunately, a cgi script has neither.

Can you just modify the cgi script to read the file you want to include and insert it's contents into your output?
Tracy Dryden
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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[JennyW]

Hia ts,

Yeah, that's what I did - 'modify the cgi script to read the file you want to include and insert it's contents into your output'.

I just would have loooooved it if I could have used the one SSI file for everything. Oh well, I've been looking and asking for a while and it looks grim.

Thanks for the responose!
Jenny