I am looking to have a text/javascript stream created by a perl script and pushed to a client like this:

on the server side, I would have "jserver.cgi" which would accept some GET arguments...

and on the recieving end, an HTML page like this: 

<SCRIPT SRC="./cgi-bin/jserver.cgi?script='somescript'" TYPE="text/jav
+ascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript 1.3">
</SCRIPT>

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So this ^should^, in theory, work. But it doesn't. All I am doing in the script is: 
print "Content-type:text/javascript\n\n\n";
print <<TILL_END;
// JAVASCRIPT!  YAY!
TILL_END

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So - if I have this html page and this script, what am I doing wrong? Is there something explicitly wrong with CGIing the JavaScript? I don't see why that shoudl be a problem.

Thanks, Dave

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In reply to Javascript and Perl... a match never made. by Anonymous Monk

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