in reply to I know this should be easy but ...

I need to call a PERL script from a remote form on submission ... picking up some information from the form.

I'm not clear on what you're trying to achieve. Are you trying to do the equivalent of two separate POSTs from one form?

It might be simpler to implement a CGI that front-ends another CGI. That is, your CGI captures the form, then makes a LWP post to a second script, returning the results to through your script and back to the browser.

The appeal of this approach is that it doesn't depend on client-side Javascript.

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Re: Re: I know this should be easy but ...
by Frankie (Initiate) on Aug 14, 2002 at 22:46 UTC
    Thanks for the replies. FormMail autogens an email from a form submission ... not quite what I have in mind although it's a possible workaround.

    You're right about the equivalent of two separate POSTS ... the form action would be something like "return Form_Validator(this);" calling a JavaScript function that validates the form fields are complete, checks the text, etc. AND would ping my PERL script.

    That way, I can avoid redirecting from one form to another across the wire.

    Everything I can read about JavaScript indicates that if you're going to hit a URL, you're going to open a page whether you want to or not, I don't want to ... just ping the script.
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      > calling a JavaScript function that validates the form fields are complete, checks the text, etc. AND would ping my PERL script

      Maybe I'm missing something here ... is there any reason you can't just validate the required fields using JS (spitting out the JS whatever when a field isn't complete), and as long as there's no problems, submit the form via CGI as a POST request?
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