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in reply to How do you pass info to perl through an SSI call on a web page?

Depending on your Apache setup, you may need to try #include virtual= instead of #exec cgi=. This worked on my server, at least.

But I think to use this SSI directive, your file must be *.shtml, or else Apache must recognize it as 'server-parsed' .. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.