Re: Run Perl script on remote server

Or run your Perl programs in a Web server, and write a PHP HTTP client for them (fopen, curl).

If that is not possible or sufficient, then you're looking for RMI/distributed computing (or conceptionally equivalent). If you have no idea where to start, simply run a Perl SOAP server and PHP SOAP client, SOAP sucks hairy donkey balls but at least it's painless in PHP. There are many more protocols (XML-RPC, JSON-RPC, Corba, …) and you can invent your own protocol (on top of sockets, on top of HTTP, …).

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Re^2: Run Perl script on remote server by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 14, 2013 at 18:03 UTC
Or run your Perl programs in a Web server, and write a PHP HTTP client for them (fopen, curl). I did that once and it works very well - POST and GET values can be passed on as is and the testing can be done on the server with Perl while completely ignoring the one with PHP ( Server A ). The only downsides are: Cross domain scripts sometimes give the user a scary error The browser will render nothing until the entire HTML is thrown out which might make page loads appear slow to the user - You cant flush STDOUT halfway to get the browser to start rendering stuff.	[reply]

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Re^2: Run Perl script on remote server
by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 14, 2013 at 18:03 UTC

Or run your Perl programs in a Web server, and write a PHP HTTP client for them (fopen, curl).

I did that once and it works very well - POST and GET values can be passed on as is and the testing can be done on the server with Perl while completely ignoring the one with PHP ( Server A ).

The only downsides are:

Cross domain scripts sometimes give the user a scary error
The browser will render nothing until the entire HTML is thrown out which might make page loads appear slow to the user - You cant flush STDOUT halfway to get the browser to start rendering stuff.

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