Ok, first off I can't set up a web server on every person's machine so that's not gonna work. And the reason I need to get this cgi script off of my host because it's simply comsuming to much bandwidth and besides it takes a long time to load because of all the data it must transfer.

Basically you have a html page with a form on it. FORM name=generatemap action=../cgi-bin/mapeditor/upload.cgi method=post target=map encType=multipart/form-data and a few fields in the form INPUT type=radio value=open name=ac etc... etc... exactly what type of input fields doesn't matter
the user clicks on the submit button
then, the data is submitted to the cgi (upload.cgi) like I mentioned before.
upload cgi then generates an html page that the viewer sees in their browser (of course)

Now I have converted the perl script into a c++ exe.... The problem is if I put the html page and the exe on my local machine instead, then when I click the submit button it asks to download the exe instead of running it.

And so that's what I need a solution to.
As for what I used to convert the perl to an exe, well that don't matter much. I can just as easily recode the program in c++. However, I did try this program: http://www.indigostar.com/perl2exe.htm

In reply to Re: Re: exe on local machine by Kevin Ar18
in thread exe on local machine by Kevin Ar18

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