Keep in mind I'm just fielding a guess here, but when the OP says "a remote perlscript", I think he might actually mean PerlScript, which is an ActiveX scripting engine that implements perl (and is a part of ActiveState's perl distro).

I've never used it myself, but if I understand the concept of it, one could embed it within an html document much like other ActiveX scripting engines like JScript or VBScript.

Update: Noone else seems to know (or at least has not replied), so to the OP, I'll make a suggestion...do you have an activex scripting host? If you're running IIS, then you probably do, and it might be a configuration issue, in which case try the microsoft newsgroups. If you're trying to use it on apache, then it may well not work at all. Hope that at least points you in the right direction.