SSI within a CGI script? - Is it possible?

It is not possible to use the include and exec tags in a CGI script but it is possible to emulate what SSI does when a Perl script is executed.

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John Slade (ICQ #19533369)
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You can, actually ....
Instead of printing text/html headers, print wwwserver/html-ssi. That should do the trick (at least in my Win 95 machine)

Cheers,
Federico

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SSI in CGI scripts is not possible to my knowledge
JP

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I use 'Require' to insert a file into a cgi script.

Example:
require "../burst-sub.cgi";

There are two limitations that I have noted:

1) The script MUST return a True or 1 value at the end or it will add an entry to your error logs. (simple to do: $result = 1; as the last line)

2) You can only 'include' this file in any cgi file ONCE... the reason is simple - it has already been included.

I don't know if this is not 'standard'... but I know it works... I use it often.

Matt

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I use

Include Tag:-

open (FILE, "file.txt") ;
while (<FILE>) { print $_; }
close (FILE);

Exec tag:-

$ssiexec = `file.cgi` ;
$ssiexec =~ s!Content-type: \w+/\w+!!i ;
print "$ssiexec" ;

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John Slade (ICQ #19533369)
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The line I listed above is what I use to include existing cgi scripts (like my banner rotator) that I want to 'insert' into a secondary script (like my message board). That way I don't have to cut and paste the code into that spot... and if I change the original code, it automatically changes in the second script.

Matt

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