Correction to my previous post to John

You can launch a Perl script from javascript

example:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function showProgress() {
var newWindow = open("http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl", "secondWindow
+", "scrollbars,resizable,width=250,height=150,left=720");
}
</script>
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The form element would contain the following javascript event handler:

onSubmit="showProgress()
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Eoin