I'm trying to write a script that will serve an HTML page with two frames, each of which call itself (the script) with different parameters and output themselves into the two frames.

Is that possible?

Here's my basic attempt that didn't work (test.pl): 

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw(param);
  #this has the head_foot() function
require "templates/standard_templates.pl"; 
use vars qw($head $foot);

my ($head,$foot) = head_foot();

if (param("page") eq "top") {
        page_top();
        exit;
} elsif (param("page") eq "bottom") {
        page_bottom();
        exit;
} else {
        page_main();
}


sub page_main {
        print <<EOF;
$head
<frameset rows="25,*">
    <frame src="test.pl?page=top" name="frametop">
    <frame src="test.pl?page=bottom" name="framebottom">
</frameset>
$foot
EOF
}


sub page_top {
        print <<EOF;
$head
<h1>TOP OF THE PAGE</h1>
$foot
EOF
}

sub page_bottom {
        print <<EOF:
$head;
<h1>THIS IS THE BOTTOM</h1>
$foot
EOF
}

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In reply to Is if possible to fill all framesets with the same CGI? by melguin

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