I need to include a file along the lines of: <!--#include virtual="/directory/structure/file.pl?project=projectName-->

But I have a problem. I don't know in advance what project I need to include. I want that to be passed to the file in the main URL like:
www.site.com/directory/file.shtml?project=projectNatme

I have parsed the variable into a usable Javascript variable, and tried to write the include file into the page like
 document.write( '<!--' + '#include virtual="/directory/structure/'+'file.pl?project='+projectName+'"-->'); in an attempt to pass the information onward to the Perl script, but this is not working. (If I don't split up the include call, the include happens without the variable being added. If I do, it doesn't work at all.)

I suspect that there is a better way to get the information to my file.pl, but I don't know what that might be. Here is the caveat: file.pl can't be run as a standalone CGI. It HAS to be an include. Any ideas?

In reply to Telling a file included in a web page something by lishevita

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