> Well, I'm a newbie. Just got started in Perl and was stunned > by its power. > > The thing is i'm running the scripts in WinXP. Can you tell > how to use CGI scripts in XP, because if ai try to set a CGI > script as ACTION in a forme it just gets read and doesn't execute.
I'm assuming you are talking about an html form and not a Tk or some other type of form correct? Usually to serve a script the same way as you would on a web server your computer needs to know how to handle the request. This involves running a web server locally, like apache. I run apache on my G4 PowerBook and can have an html form, say at :http://localhost/form.html and have it submitted to cgi-bin/formhandler.plx What is even better is to have the script generate the form and handle the form. Another tip for you since you say you are a newbie and you are tryin gto handle html forms" Don't use formmail from matt's script archive, it is super insecure and a spam machine. HTH Dmuey > > I've heard about the bat wrapping, but i really wanted to use > the scripts as they are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
