On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Juha Virtanen wrote:
> Jack Barnett writes:
>
> :>Is it possiable to execute a server side include cgi to a remote web server?
>
> To my understanding of this concept, no.
I got that impress from a lot of the web pages I seen, but it didn't say they
didn't say it staight up, so I though maybe their was a tweak , work around or
undocumented option to make it work.
>
> IMHO, it is a good thing when you don't have control over the
> remote site (which is the usual case). For example if running
> CGIs in remote, and including output where it's being executed
> into your script file, did work, a CGI script would present you a
> zippy quote as text, and you are happy with that. But some time
> later CGI becomes changed to show a zippy quote as an image.
> Guess what? Your script would then be inherently broken.
True, but if you have %100 control over the remote server and remote script you
could make %100 sure that it would not return an image, since the person making
the remote request is the same person that maintains the remote script.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Juha
Thanks for the information,
Jack
