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

Let's say you have a form.pl and you call it using form.html as an SSI. The form.pl loads as if it were form.html, but when you press submit it drags you over to the form.pl instead of the form.html. That means any errors or any data after you use a CGI form will be printed on a new page, right? Is there ANY way to keep it loading in the same HTML page using SSI?

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Re: CGI printing to html?
by caedes (Pilgrim) on Jan 09, 2004 at 15:53 UTC
    It is possible (though not very nice IMO) to send a POST request to an html file. If you set the action for the form to point to form.html then this will send the data for the form back to the html file request. You can then use a test in form.cgi to see if you are actually getting form results and then parse those results accordingly. It really depends on exactly how much of the output on form.html is actually taken care of by form.cgi, however what you describe is still possible in any case.

    I'm pretty sure I would rather go about this the other way by generating the form.html code from within form.cgi or just using two separate files and no SSI.

    What exactly is your reasoning behind using SSI?

    Hope this helps.

    -caedes

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      The reason I am doing this is because I have a web template that has two includes (a header.html and a sidemenu.html). I want the script to load in menu.html so it appears in the same spot on every single one of my pages. I have it working, it loads just fine. The problem comes when they submit the form inside the menu, it redirects them to the perl script itself (therefor losing the template I was using).

      Can someone give me any ideas on how to make all errors and all data from a form.pl setup like this to print back on the html page?

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