in reply to Mock CGI output to browser from Perl on Windows 98

Is there a good way to do this all on my local computer? To send the Perl script outputted HTML to a browser locally, and thereby set up my own little mock CGI?

I do a lot of personal CGI development on my Win98 laptop using ActiveState Perl and Microsoft's Personal Web Server (PWS). Much of that work later gets uploaded to a FreeBSD box running Apache. It works well for me for simple stuff. (For MySQL development, I stick with FreeBSD.)

PWS is a scaled-down version of IIS. It supports Perl CGIs just fine, with the standard caveats that some things like fork and flock don't work on Win98. (It's been a couple of years since I installed it, and I don't remember if it's on the Win98 CD or the Option Pack CD.)

I posted some advice here about getting PWS working with ActiveState Perl.

Another alternative is Apache. I've gotten Apache to work with Perl CGIs on NT, but have no experience with it on Win98.

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