I'm not sure if you want to spawn the window from the client side or from the server side. If you're serving up a page to a web client you could use the target method or javascript to spawn new windows. This can be done with a form button or automatically when the page loads with meta tags. Here is the javascript command to do this:
window.open('http://page.to/load/','NewWindowTitle', 'toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=300,height=300')
If you want to control the browser on the same machine as your database you have two options that I'm aware of. First is to just execute the command with the url as an argument.
netscape http://page.to/load/
Your second option is to control the browser. On win platforms you could do this with OLE. Check out the excel demo that comes with activestate perl. In unix the api used to be available to compile C programs against.

Wish I had more details but maybe this could get you started.

In reply to Re: Browser manipulation using PERL? by elwarren
in thread Browser manipulation using PERL? by bman

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