I need to call a PERL script from a remote form on submission ... picking up some information from the form. My choices are to use a pure 'redirect' to and from my script or to use Javascript to call the Perl module. I'm not returning anything back to Javascript ... just sending the information as parameters ... something like .. $mylink = http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/perlscript.pl?f=foo&b=bar Once I get this, I can check the environment variable to identify the redirect string, pluck off the parameters and life is great ... Problem is, I have no clue how to write the JavaScript to "ping" my PERL script without trying to open it up as a page, i.e. window.open($mylink); This has got to be easy ... but I'm googled out. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. FH

In reply to I know this should be easy but ... by Frankie

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