Running Perl From Web Page W/out Changing Page?

[Hal Vaughan]

Is there any way to run a Perl script from a web page without changing the
web page?

I'd like to be able to click a button on a web page and have it run a script
in the background, but not have to re-load the page or change anything.  Is
this possible?

Thanks!

Hal

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Is there any way to run a Perl script from a web page without
changing the web page?

I'd like to be able to click a button on a web page and have it run
a script in the background, but not have to re-load the page or
change anything. Is this possible?

Yes. Provided that the only thing the script prints to STDOUT is:

print "Status: 204 No Content\n\n";

you should be able to invoke it the way you describe.

 

[Robin]

Is there any way to run a Perl script from a web page without changing the
web page?

I'd like to be able to click a button on a web page and have it run a script
in the background, but not have to re-load the page or change anything. Is
this possible?

Thanks!

do a google search for ssi tutorial, that's where I started with this.
-Robin