Thanks this works, but i wanted to write a CGI script instead in Javascript. IS there a function in perl | [reply] |
If you want a perl equivalent of the Javascript snippet
above that prints a web page to the client's printer,
no, there is no function or module in perl that does
what you want. As more than one person says above, a CGI
perl script cannot access resources on the client
side.
Besides, isn't this what the "print" button on their browser
is for?
The only possible exception (which your situation
does not seem to be) is on an internal-only web
server (that is, the client is on your network, at your
company), and then it could make a system call to print
some kind of output of the perl script. However (and this
is important), perl is not a web broswer, and so
it cannot output to the printer the same thing that a
browser would, so this is a bad solution too.
amelinda (see source for aside comment)
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