Perl Question

[Justin]

I want to embed a perl program into a shtml file so I can include a top.shtml and a bottom.shtml which has normal markup stuff like CSS. But, I also want to pass information via POST to the script.

When I have this in the .shtml which is recieving information from a HTML form:

<!--#include virtual="top.shtml"-->
<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/script.pl"-->
<!--#include virtual="bottom.shtml"-->

Everything there is correct, but none of the information from the form is being passed to script.pl, and therefore it does nothing.

Does anyone know if this is possible? I heard something about EmbPerl but I'm not sure if it's the right way to do it.

Also, I don't want to just print out the contents of top.shtml in the script because that would just be slow.

Thanks in advance for any help...
-Justin

[sir pannels]

hey,
hmm yeh cuz the info does not have a target....would be best to have the pl script including the .shtml files do ya know how to do that?
sir p

[Justin]

If you look at this site: http://bilder.ecos.de/index1.htm

Click on the third link from the left at the top, it takes you to a form, the form's action is set to another .htm file where it's processed. There must be a perl script embedded somewhere in that htm file that the form leads to.

I want to know how to do this...

[Calilo]

Im really not sure but maybe that form is sent via not server side,

i really dont know this for sure,

Calilo

[sir pannels]

yeh im prolly agreein with Calilo here...you can proberly get a small bit oof java script to do the jod for you maybe
sir p