in reply to perl cgi without webserver?

Just to make it clear: in order to run a CGI perl script you need a web server (which windows does not come with, although who knows what Bill would do to choke the internet a little more...)

It apears by what you said that you tried to view a local copy of the script without running it through a server. Am I right?

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Re: Re: perl cgi without webserver?
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jul 06, 2003 at 12:53 UTC
    yosefm,
    "which windows does not come with"

    I wanted to point out that many versions of Windows does indeed ship with the IIS web server. This doesn't negate your point, it just shows that having a web server on a Windows machine "out of the box" is more common than you would expect.

    Cheers - L~R

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      Yes, that is true but it needs to be able to run on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP. This is not possible for the 9x flavors to run IIS and I do not want to have to install any software to make this report work. That is why I was thinking of using HTML as every Windows machine has a browser.

      At work we are constantly having to make sure that people do not install IIS as it is so easy to overlook on Server platform Windows versions. I am aware of how easy it is. But, like I said, 9x is also a target for this and no installation of further software. I am not going to be able to distribute IIS on floppy so this is not an option.

      I do thank you for the reply as it is a very good point that is normally overlooked.

      Ed

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