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RE: [ECS] PERL Problem Kevin Keast Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:46:38 -0500

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I will check.  Scott, Ingo, thanks for the help/info.  I will get this thing
working sometime!

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From:	Ingo Pakleppa [mailto:ipakleppa@home.com]
Sent:	Thursday, March 02, 2000 4:03 PM
To:	ecs-list@netbloc.com; ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject:	Re: [ECS] PERL Problem

Ooopsss. You are right, I missed that. Would have been unusual to begin
with to execute a perl script on the client side.

Then, you would have to tell PWS to use Active Perl to execute a .pl file.
I'm not sure how to do that in PWS. Otherwise, PWS would treat it as a
regular data file and try to upload it to the client - which is what is
happening.

Is the script in a directory marked executable on the server, in PWS?
Usually, this might be the directory /cgi-bin or /bin. If the directory is
not marked as executable, again, PWS would treat the file as a data file
and try to upload it to the client.

Ingo

At 09:48 AM 3/2/00 -0500, Scott Reston wrote:
>actually, i don't think this is the case. the configuration is all on the
>server. the script itself never gets downloaded to the client - the line
>in kevin's script that
>reads:
>
>print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>
>tells the browser that the mime-type for the incoming file is HTML... the
>server just needs to know that this is a script and should be executed...
>
>scott reston
>ih8gates@concentric.net
>http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/
>
>
>On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 06:22:24 -0800, Ingo Pakleppa wrote:
>
> >This problem could originate from both the client and the server.
> >
> >The server must be configured to send the correct mime-type (I don't know
> >it, but it might be text/perl or something like that). In most servers,
you
> >would actually associate the extension .pl with the mime-type. I believe
> >PWS uses the mime-type that you enter in Explorer's file associations.
> >
> >And the browser must be configured to run Active Perl as a helper
> >application when this mime type is received.
> >
> >Ingo

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