I'm working on a webpage that will contain a poll. The way I tell if I should display the form to vote or the results is by checking to see if the user's IP address has been logged for this particular poll. However, I don't want to have my entire site run by a Perl program - having to generate code on every page hit is more computing power than I'd like to use.

Is there any way I can use something else - maybe SSI's "<!--#exec cmd=...>" or some other implementation to pass my existing poll %ENV? Particularly $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}?

I've tried running something like this:

<!--#exec cmd="perl -e \"print $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}\"" -->

But that doesn't capture %ENV. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

In reply to Getting %ENV without CGI? by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.