[thelist] Server Side Includes / Remote host

Anthony Baratta anthony at baratta.com
Thu Jan 15 23:42:33 CST 2004


At 04:16 PM 1/15/2004, Warbasse Design - Info wrote:

>The result, in each case, is a page that pulls in the code of the image
>instead of the image itself.  Any help to get me across the finsh line would
>be greatly appreciated.

Two options

One - do with with Javascript. IIS does not support EXEC with SSI.

Two - what you want to do is have the EXEC'd CGI script talk to another 
script on your server. This script will hand over the HTML code that points 
to the target image. The HTML code is then passed to the browser.

e.g.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::Simple;
$cgiReturn = get http://www.mydomain/nextad.cgi?id=ClientID;
print $cgiReturn;
exit;


Then

nextad.cgi

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# routine to randomly pick ad image
print &GetMeNextAd();

The HTML returned would look like this:

<image src="http://www.mydomain/ads/ad1.jpg">

This would then be embeded in the HTML, sent to the browser and then 
rendered by the browser.




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