[thelist] JSP - Execute a perl script like you would with an SSI exec call?
deke
web at master.gen.in.us
Fri Mar 9 21:21:20 CST 2001
On 9 Mar 2001, at 15:57, Mark Gregor wrote:
> We have this great poll script written in Perl. The original home for
> the script was on a Linux box, but the script has now been ported
> to NT (still in Perl) for use on a site we're building that is entirely
> JSP based.
> In it's previous life, the script itself was called from an HTML page
> using an SSI exec, like this <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/polls.cgi"--> This
> would cause the poll to appear in whatever page the SSI exec call
> was placed in. However, we're no longer using standard SSIs.
> Is there any way to call this cgi script from a JSP page in a similar way?
<IFRAME src="/cgi-bin/polls.cgi">
You can also embed it with the <OBJECT> tag, but the only popular
browsers that support <OBJECT> well are Netscape/6 and WebTV,
which have a combined browser share of maybe 5-8%.
deke
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