Can someone tell me how to run programs via a form using cgi?
I have a form built and i told the cgi code that if this item is selected to do a system command and it puts the number 65280 in the answer on the web form??

see below

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$diskuse = (system `/usr/bin/df -k`);
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

# Since the "how you reached this site" list was saved as
# a number, we need a hash to translate it back to English:
%howreach = ( 0 => "",
                1 => "$diskuse",
                2 => "Site is bookmarked",
                3 => "A search engine",
                4 => "A link from another site",
                5 => "From a book",
                6 => "Other" );

print <<EndHTML;
<html><head><title>Results</title></head>
<body>
<h2>Results</h2>

Here's what you entered:<p>
Your name: $FORM{'name'}<p>
Email: $FORM{'email'}<p>
Which option you picked: $howreach{$FORM{'howreach'}}<p>
How you'd rate this site (1=poor,5=excellent):
$FORM{'rating'}<p>
EndHTML

%boxes = (  "des" => "Website Design",
        "svr" => "Web Server Administration",
        "com" => "Electronic Commerce",
        "mkt" => "Web Marketing/Advertising",
        "edu" => "Web-Related Education" );

print "You're also involved in the following:<br>\n";
foreach $key (keys %boxes) {
    if ($FORM{$key} == 1) {
        print "$boxes{$key}<br>\n";
    }
}

print <<EndFoot;
<p>
Your comments:<br>
$FORM{'comments'}<p>
</body></html>
EndFoot

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In reply to Running programs via cgi by ddrumguy

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