The code below does as you ask. It opens an existing html file, prints it and then runs your script.

use strict;
use warnings;

open(FH,"<./test.html") || die "couldn't open file $!\n";
my @html=<FH>;
close(FH);

print @html;
print "    my script stuff<P>\n";
print '</body>';

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As monkfish suggests a server side include may also do what you want.

You would put the following line inside your html document 

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/yourscript.pl" -->

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Some random personal SSI thoughts:

  1. Microsoft IIS is more forgiving of syntax sloppiness. For example you can have a space between the -- and the # This can cause problems when you switch to apache.

  2. Your server has to have SSI enabled and has to allow exec commands. Allowing any user to execute any command in their page is considered a security risk.

  3. As far as I know, there is not a portable way to pass your CGI parameters. Apache supports environment variables. IIS supports a parameter string but not vice versa

Hope this helps


--mandog

In reply to Re: Append script output to complex block of html and script by mandog
in thread Append script output to complex block of html and script by jerrygarciuh

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