I'm attempting to write (semi-)intelligent Perl scripts to embed in webpages - the idea being to create elements like context sensitive linking (Previous FAQ and Next FAQ links only in the FAQ directory, for example).

The idea I had was to use the <!--#exec--> SSI directive to embed a Perl script in the page and use $embedpage = $ENV{'PATH_INFO'} to return the name of the page which called the script so that results could be customized by page. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work in IIS as it returns the name of the script rather than the name of the originating page. I haven't tested this in other server software but switching isn't really an option at this point so I was wondering if anybody knew a way to create the desired effect without switching the whole site over to script instead of static SHTML pages.

Help much appreciated.

In reply to #exec and $ENV{'PATH_INFO'} by Ionizor

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