Perl on page load

rtlm has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, i have a perl page count program and am trying to make it run every time the index page of my site is loaded. How can i do this? I have tried to put this in the <body> tag... <BODY onload="counter.cgi"> but this seems to look for a script written inside the html document, not in the directory. Thanks guys. Thanks for the help, i managed to call it from a javascript function which was called when the page loads up.

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Re: Perl on page load by beable (Friar) on Jul 11, 2004 at 01:40 UTC
How about `<img width=1 height=1 src=counter.cgi>`? Also, please consider the Perl FAQ entry about counters.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl on page load by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2004 at 09:20 UTC
You can do the same with frames/iframes but of course the single pixel image is the usual way. cheers tachyon	[reply]
Re: Perl on page load by BUU (Prior) on Jul 11, 2004 at 01:50 UTC
You seem to be under a missaprehension. Perl, as a cgi, is only invoked when the browser makes a request to a server and that server determines that request to be handled by a cgi script. The only way a perl script will be run is if you configure the server to execute it in response to some query.	[reply]
Re: Perl on page load by kiat (Vicar) on Jul 11, 2004 at 04:43 UTC
Hi rtlm, How about using exec? `<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counter.cgi" -->` [download] Do read the following for its usage though (source->http://www.tech.irt.org/articles/js099/): I have saved this one (exec) for last, since it is probably the most powerful but also the most dangerous. With it, the output of a CGI script may be included where the SSI is in the HTML page. The CGI script may do just about anything - it could be a counter, perhaps, which updates your counter file and displays the number of visitors on the page. It takes two different parameters, cmd and cgi.	[reply] [d/l]