Contributed by aykes
on Apr 22, 2001 at 23:58 UTC
Q&A
> HTTP and FTP clients
Description: I have a perl program (running on windows). I want to run it through a webpage (local on my computer). Is the a way for HTML to run 'perl myprogram.pl? Answer: trying to run a perl program in HTML contributed by tinman You need to install a webserver on your computer.. use IIS, PWS, or even Apache for Win32..
Next, write a HTML form as so..
<form action="launcher.pl" method="post">
<input type="submit" name="sub" value="Run this!">
</form>
on your page..
Inside your launcher.pl CGI script (yes, you've writen a CGI script now), execute the Perl script that you want using exec or system or backticks like so..
#!c:/perl/bin -w
use strict;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI;
my $path_to_program = "c:/perl/myprog/prog.pl";
my $return_value = system("c:/perl/bin/perl.exe",$path_to_program);
# this is the actual execution of the script.
# now you can put a message to the user
print $q->header; # send correct header, text/html
# put HTML here
It might be best if you restrict access to this script to ONLY your machine.. HTH | Answer: trying to run a perl program in HTML contributed by epoptai You need to set up a webserver with Common
Gateway Interface (CGI) to execute perl scripts
on your local computer. Meanwhile you can capture
the HTML output of a script with something like
perl myprogram.pl >myprogram.html to
view static pages in a browser. | Answer: trying to run a perl program in HTML contributed by tomhukins If you use ActivePerl,
you can write client side
Perl scripts, just as you might write client side
Javascript. Be aware of the security implications
of doing this: you don't want malicious Web pages
to include things like unlink within
<SCRIPT> tags, for example. |
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