With out knowing more, I'll take a stab in the dark and suggest a serverside include in the client's pages of your script.

Good luck and give us some more details so we can help...

-monkfish

Well, the jist of it is that the script currently spits out a whole page which it writes from scratch. I need to alter the script so it opens a file of 30 lines of html and appends the script output onto it. Like a search engine does, the logo is there, the links are there, and my on-the-fly code sits underneath. I don't expect anyone to write this I just can't seem to find an answer in my books. I am clearly not asking this in a way which makes perlsense.

The code below does as you ask. It opens an existing html file, prints it and then runs your script.

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FH,"<./test.html") || die "couldn't open file $!\n";
my @html=<FH>;
close(FH);

print @html;
print "    my script stuff<P>\n";
print '</body>';
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As monkfish suggests a server side include may also do what you want.

You would put the following line inside your html document

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/yourscript.pl" -->
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Some random personal SSI thoughts:

1. Microsoft IIS is more forgiving of syntax sloppiness. For example you can have a space between the -- and the # This can cause problems when you switch to apache.


2. Your server has to have SSI enabled and has to allow exec commands. Allowing any user to execute any command in their page is considered a security risk.


3. As far as I know, there is not a portable way to pass your CGI parameters. Apache supports environment variables. IIS supports a parameter string but not vice versa


Hope this helps


--mandog