Hey monks: Here's the issue. I cleaned up my site that was in mass disarray. I'm using HTML::Template for the general layout, but there's a column in the page that needs to be dynamic. It queries my MySQL database, gets the latest info and prints it out. So, for that, I'm using ssi->exec(). I also have made this part of the page the part that keeps track of the hits.

The logic of the hit counter is that if the IP hasn't been logged that day, it logs it. The problem now, is that since that part of the script is run by ssi->exec(), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} will always return the address of the remote server. I tried something like this: 
print $ssi->exec(cgi => 'http://myscript.cgi $ip_address');

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But that didn't fly. Any suggestions besides putting the code on each of the 12 other scripts that make up the site?

In reply to Passing an argument to an execute()ed script by GaijinPunch

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