Need help with EXE command

cal has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am using the exec command to execute a browser redirect cgi which works fine. The redirect script prints the appropriate SHTML pages. I wanted these SHTML pages to use an exec command to execute a counter cgi but nothing gets printed. If I go to the SHTML URL directly rather than using the redirect CGI the counter CGI executes fine.

Any Ideas why the second execute command wont work?
Thanks

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Re: Need help with EXE command by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Jul 16, 2002 at 17:38 UTC
Are you sure `exec` is what you want to use for a counter? Keep in mind that it won't return when it is done. You may want to use `system` here instead. _______________ D a m n D i r t y A p e Home Node \| Email	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Need help with EXE command by cal (Beadle) on Jul 16, 2002 at 18:15 UTC
I possibly would like to use other cgi's other then counter. If the call for EXEC is `<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-local/events.cgi" -->` What is the call for SYSTEM Cal	[reply] [d/l]
Re:(3) Need help with EXE command by DamnDirtyApe (Curate) on Jul 16, 2002 at 18:30 UTC
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about the Perl command `exec`, rather than what you're doing here. Since I'm not really familiar with this, all I can do is point you here for an example of how I've always seen counters done before. _______________ D a m n D i r t y A p e Home Node \| Email	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Need help with EXE command by cfreak (Chaplain) on Jul 16, 2002 at 21:02 UTC
You are talking about SSI calls. Which deal more with the Webserver rather than perl. If I understand you correctly you are calling an SSI exec directive from another SSI exec directive and you can't do that because the server doesn't parse the included exec or include files. Even if you could its not really a good practice (i.e. you should separate your webpages in very definable sections). You could use perl to parse out the SSI directives and call the programs or files yourself, but I think it would be far easier to rethink the design a bit so that your SSI calls are all on the page you are viewing. Hope that helps Chris Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply]