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Using require/SSI in CGI scripts

 


zaro
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Dec 14, 2000, 2:17 PM

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Using require/SSI in CGI scripts Can't Post
First, is there a way to insert a plain text file into CGI output similar to the SSI include statement? For example, the contents of my.txt embedded into the html output.

Second, I know that certain SSI statements can be embedded into cgi scipts using $ADVNoPrint = 1; $ADVQuery = ""; and a require statement. However, is there a way to get SSI include (virtual or not) to work?

Regards,

zaro



sleuth
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Dec 14, 2000, 11:52 PM

Post #2 of 4 (415 views)
Re: Using require/SSI in CGI scripts [In reply to] Can't Post
 
Yes there is, but I'm confused by your explanations with SSI, What are you tyring to do?

Sleuth



zaro
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Dec 15, 2000, 6:57 AM

Post #3 of 4 (412 views)
Re: Using require/SSI in CGI scripts [In reply to] Can't Post
In a regular html page I have two "include virtual" SSIs, one pulls the content of a txt file into the page the other runs a search.cgi on a database and pulls/displays the results in the page.

Now, I would like to do the same for a cgi generated page. Is there a way to "include" external content, as described above, in cgi generated pages?

Regards,

zaro



japhy
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Dec 15, 2000, 3:30 PM

Post #4 of 4 (408 views)
Re: Using require/SSI in CGI scripts [In reply to] Can't Post
CGI program cannot produce SSI directives -- at least, it can, but the server will not parse the directives.

It is silly, though, for a CGI program to rely on SSI -- there shouldn't be anything you need to use SSIs for in a CGI program. If you want to include a file as output, merely open it and print its contents:

Code
open FILE, "file/to/read.txt" or die "can't read file/to/read.txt: $!"; 
print while <FILE>; 
close FILE;
The other SSI directives have pretty simple translation into the general algorithm behind them, and they're pretty easy to implement in Perl.

Jeff "japhy" Pinyan -- accomplished hacker, teacher, lecturer, and author

 
 


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