Your question is rather confused for me and I don't understand it fully. Keep in mind that CGI scripts already work ON the server, so what?

If you want something that runs on the server without the need of a trigger from a webserver, then you don't need CGI for this, just create your scripts and make them run on the server itself, e.g. using the crontab or doing the scheduling on your own with sleep and/or alarm.

Last thing that comes to my mind is that you could want to always execute something for each request that arrives to the web server, but without the explicit use of CGI. In this case, you'd probably study the documentation for the webserver, and try to see if something about Apache in CPAN can help you.

Flavio (perl -e 'print(scalar(reverse("\nti.xittelop\@oivalf")))')

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re: CGI for the server by polettix
in thread CGI for the server by Anonymous Monk

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