Interfacing Javascript with CGI

[gmazujian]

I have a problem. I would like to call a cgi program from javascript.
I have scanned the web. I have a cgi program. It works fine if I call
it by the url. However, when I call it from the javascript script it
appears to do nothing. It doesn't generate any error.
First, Here is my html with Javascript.

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
src="/cgi-bin/cookie/script1.cgi">
</script>


Second, here is my cgi program.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# CGI program can do other stuff here.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<!--\n";
print "var x;\n";
print "document.write('The number of visits is: ');";
print "//-->\n";
# end of program

It would be greatly appreciated if someone could tell me what is going
wrong with it. By the way, this is on a FreeBSD machine running Apache
1.3.3.

 

[Martin Honnen]

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
src="/cgi-bin/cookie/script1.cgi">
</script>

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# CGI program can do other stuff here.
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

If you want to send JavaScript code then do that and use a proper
Content-Type, e.g. text/javascript or application/x-javascript.

print "<!--\n";

That starts an SGML or XML comment and does not belong into pure
JavaScript code. If you had a static .js file you would include with
<script src="file.js"> then you hopefully don't put it in there either.

 

[gmazujian]

Thanks. I tried "text/javascript" as well, but it didn't work either.

 

[Peroli]

Hi,
The problem is with the "content-type". Set it to "text/plain". Js
files are text files and should not be treated as HTML or anything
else.

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

change it to
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

- Peroli Sivaprakasam