Thanks for the clarification. Although, the reason PWS and IIS don't use the shebang line to find the perl executable is exactly the same reason Windows doesn't use the MIME type to open other binaries. Everything is based on file associations with extensions. You're right, of course...but the underlying issue is still a combination of the PWS & IIS servers *and* the OS itself.
It's probably just semantic anyway. He should still use Apache. ;-) Scot R. inSite -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of $Bill Luebkert Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:34 PM To: Perl Users Subject: Re: Getting cgis to work Scot Robnett wrote: > On Windows, the shebang line > is almost a frivolity - as long as the script has a .pl or .cgi extension > (and you have .cgi associated with perl.exe), it should run. I'm not > suggesting to get rid of that line, because it would be bad style - but > Win32 doesn't really care about it. It's not Windoze per se, it's because PWS and IIS don't use the shebang line to find the Perl exe - they use the file ext (.pl/.cgi) to find the associated application. Apache and many Win32 shells *do* use the shebang line as does Perl itself to pick up the switches. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=162126130 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
