you have to use SSI to take the return values of the ran script..

or if you just want to run the script, you can call it from an <IMG src="cgi-bin/script.pl"> tag and return an empty image

Oh... why not just run the script?? and not the html to call it...

What I am not clear on with your question is

• Does the perl script in question have to live on the publisher's machine?
• What do you mean exactly by call perl script from HTML?

Give me a more substantial example of what you are trying to call from HTML.

Updated: Here is one way that I can think of right off the bat that I've actually done in the past:


In the HTML file you do the following:

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
    src="http://myserver.domain.com/cgi-bin/script?args=...">
doScript()
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
doScript()
</script>
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At any rate, I think I got that trick from WebMonkey a while back in an article entitled Poor Man's SSI or some such title. If I could find the article I would provide a link to it.

What may or may not be obvious is the cgi script being referenced should return valid JavaScript code to be executed by the browser and in turn produced the desired renderable HTML code.

If the script is on a remote machine, as you say, then SSI won't work anyway: it only works for local addresses.

Here are a few options that might work:

<iframe src="http://your_script"></iframe>
<a href="your_link"><img src="http://your_script"></a>
<script language="javascript" src="your_javascript"></script>
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If you use the image option then your script has to return a valid image file, of course. The javascript would consist of document.write() instructions. iframes can just contain html, but don't work in netscape. There's something similar that you can do with <div> tags in netscape, but i can't remember the syntax for that one. Search for the source-include css property to find out.

Most of these methods, and perhaps others, can be found by reading the source of pages with adverts on them, but I hope the ad network really is just for example...