Running a perl script from a html page

Ankit.11nov has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I want to run a perl script from a html web page.

<html>
<head>
<title>Run your first Perl script</title>
</head>
<body>
Click on <a href="D:\workspace\run.pl">this link</a> to run your first
+ Perl script.
</body>
</html>
[download]

But when I am clicking on the link it is downloading the file instead of running it.
Please suggest what can be done here.

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