What I am not clear on with your question is

I'm thinking that there are all sorts of clever ways of incorporating javascript, img tags, dummy forms, and all sorts of trickery depending on what you are trying to accomplish.

Give me a more substantial example of what you are trying to call from HTML.

Updated: Here is one way that I can think of right off the bat that I've actually done in the past:


In the HTML file you do the following: 

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
    src="http://myserver.domain.com/cgi-bin/script?args=...">
doScript()
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
doScript()
</script>

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I didn't stutter when I did the "doScript()" twice. For some reason when it is rendered it needs to be called twice.

At any rate, I think I got that trick from WebMonkey a while back in an article entitled Poor Man's SSI or some such title. If I could find the article I would provide a link to it.

What may or may not be obvious is the cgi script being referenced should return valid JavaScript code to be executed by the browser and in turn produced the desired renderable HTML code.

Peter L. BergholdSchooner Technology Consulting, Inc.
Peter@Berghold.Netwww.berghold.net

In reply to Re: Alternative to SSI by blue_cowdawg
in thread Alternative to SSI by Anonymous Monk

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