I am writing a Perl script that has to do the following:
  1. Fetch some stuff from another site
  2. Parse that stuff and produce some Javascript code
  3. Return Javascript code on standard output

This script, as you could guess, will be called from another automatically generated page, in such a way... 

print $query->start_html(
    -title => 'Some title',
    -script => {
        -language => 'Javascript',
        -src => 'my_script.pl'
    }
);

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or something like this.

The problem is in the first step. Since the HTML code is simply ugly, I'm using lynx to get a text-dump of the page, as some good monks suggested me in this thread (Reverse engineering HTML).

So the first lines of my_script.pl are something like: 

my $query = new CGI;
print $query->header("text/plain");

my $body = `lynx -dump some_url_here`;

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But this doesn't work. I've add print $body after this snippet and I've seen this (for me, mysterious) error message (the string after /var/www/ changes every time I run the script):

/var/www/XCjrzA: Permission denied

I think it could be a problem in the configuration of Apache, so I apologize in advance for offtopic question. I also add that I tried to use pipes to read lynx's output, but it didn't worked, with the same error-message.

In reply to Problems with backticks (maybe with Apache configuration) by larsen

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