I have written a perl script which opens an shtml document and reads it into an array (@htmldoc). It then substitutes a number of placeholders with variables which have been passed to the script from the link and then prints out @htmldoc.

One of the variables passed to the script is $course_desc which in this example represents the value 243desc.txt. The placeholder %%course_desc%% is being substituted with the variable $course_desc.

The shtml document before being read into the perl script has the following line:

 <!--#include virtual="/crs_desc/%%course_desc%%"/ -->

The problem I ran into is that when perl prints out @htmldoc, it does not parse the ssi command. When you view the html code printed by the perl script it shows the following line:

 <!--#include virtual="/crs_desc/243desc.text"/ -->

It interpretes the statement as if it was an html comment, so it doesn't print anything.

I have a variety of external documents which I need to import into the html template, depending on the value of the $course_desc variable. Is there a way to get SSI to work with perl, OR, is there another way of creating the dynamic content using external documents besides using SSI?

I have tried SSI enabling both the cgi-bin directory and the shtml document directory and that doesn't work. I know its not an SSI configuration problem.

Thanks in advance. Chris

In reply to Perl and SSI by chriso

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