Thank you all for the quick responses.

Let me provide a little bit more information:

This is a cgi page on my company's intranet. Therefore, the only machines that will access this page will be inside our firewall. Computers on the outside will not play any role. I am running reports with Tivoli on the machines who visit this page. This will help our support team make sure that those machines are a part of our Tivoli infrastructure.

This cgi page runs a report with Tivoli and does an inventory of a machine's software and submits it back to my AIX server. This page will also display the results. All of this is done by using the backticks to make a `UNIX` call, which is why I can't do this locally on the machine with a windows perl script. (hmmmmm, just thinking a little bit here--- Is it possible to have two perl scripts, one on the UNIX box and one on the Windows box and have the windows script submit its results to the UNIX script?)

The command in Tivoli needs the machines name or ip address. I know how to get the page to work by creating a form and manually entering the computername into a textbox and submitting, but there are ethical issues on why I cnnot do this.