I need to design a set of pages which will each have 4 - 9 small
dynamically generated pieces of information embedded in them (i.e.
current date & time at various cities). Each of the 4-9 timestamps will
be calculated realtime by a Perl script.
I can see two ways of using mod_perl to do this :-
1. Call GD via the Perl script via Apache::Registry to build a GIF
(i.e. <img src = http://myurl.com/perl/gif.pl> etc)... This seems to
have the advantage of maximum speed in getting the actual page out to
the browser, and the individual gifs will load after a slight delay.
2. Use Apache::ASP to embed the Timestamps into the page as text. This
should slow down the actual generation of the page slightly, but I
figure the total time to deliver all the data to the browser will be
significanyly less.
Any of you gurus have a recommendation, or is there yet a better way ?
Many thanks.
Rod
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