Execute perl script from asp

[TRACEYR]

I have WINDOWS 2000 and perl running on the PC

How do i execute the perl script within
HTML and within ASP code

Thanks

[DrDoc]

I assume that you're running a web server as well.

It's easy to execute a Perl script from a HTML page. You can do this using SSI (depending on server configuration) or just open a script using a link or a form.

SSI:
<!--#exec cgi="path_to_script/myfile.pl"-->

As far as ASP goes, I honestly don't know how to do it, but I'm sure it's possible. And it shouldn't be too hard.

[TRACEYR]

Does this mean i would have to have my html pages as shtml

Thanks

[ndjp]

TRACEYR - yes and no. It means that your page must past through the shtml parser. You can pass ANY extension you want through it, even html. Keep in mind though browsers only pick up certain MIME types.

It also means more overhead when the server is processing it because now it must run through an additional parser it did not have to before.

Make sense?

[korkus2000]

What is your perl script doing? You may be using perl for something easily reproduced in asp. You should think about recreating it in asp. If you think it is too much for the server side script then write a component. ASP was ment to be an alternative to cgi.