Anyone know how to execute a SSI / shtml directive in a Perl / CGI app? I saw a few posts regauding this, but no one was able to solve it. There is a really good reason for doing it: If you have a template file that contains a SSI tag that you read in, you would need to parse that tag too. This way you can make several modular scripts instead of lots of big CGI programs. A rough example: index.shtml: 
<HTML lang=en>
<HEAD><TITLE>Nested shtml Menu Test</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/hello.cgi"-->
</BODY></HTML>

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hello.cgi: 
open(DATA,"hello.template");
@template=<DATA>;
close(DATA);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
for($a=0;$a<=$#template;$a++){
print $template[$a];
}

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hello.template: 
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/nest.cgi"-->

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nest.cgi: 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "<BR><B>Nesty Nest";

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part of the problem I have faced is that custom directives in apache are not obeyed by CGI::SSI so i would like to rule out that module unless someone has some advice on a workaround. ------------- update: I found CGI::SSI_Parse which does almost everything I need. I am gutting the module to work the way i need. Ty for all the help!

In reply to Perl executing SSI/ include virtual by Avitar

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