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?

I'm thinking that there are all sorts of clever ways of incorporating javascript, img tags, dummy forms, and all sorts of trickery depending on what you are trying to accomplish.

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>
[download]

I didn't stutter when I did the "doScript()" twice. For some reason when it is rendered it needs to be called twice.

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.

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Peter L. Berghold	Schooner Technology Consulting, Inc.
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