Not true at all ... a server-side include can be configured to execute a CGI script with the output being incorporated into the web page (in the same way as if the CGI was executed directly itself - See the <!--#include virtual="" --> SSI directive).

To perform this bit of functional magic though, there would need to be a network method by which the web server on which the web page is hosted can pass a message to the work-station computer. This could be implemented through any variety of network magic, but I would point Anonymous Monk to a similar piece of code from Lincoln Stein which sends an email to a set address when a web page is hit - This code can be found at here under the heading Send E-Mail When a Particular Page Gets Hit. Although this code example does rely on mod_perl for execution, it could easily be adapted for CGI/SSI execution by simply stripping out the apache handling component and the additional of content header output.

 

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