"Mortimer, Richard" wrote: > > Greetings Perl Gurus, > > I'm hoping someone can give me a nudge in the right direction here, I have a HTML >form that a user will fill in, which goes to a standard Perl CGI program to massage >the data, I then need that program to call a remote executable file and capture the >output from a https://, massage the output from the executable, then create some >HTML, however I'm not sure on how to call this remote executable program. > > Thus far I have tried running the "system ($run_the_prog);" command, where the >variable is "https://remote_server/program.exe?var1=test+var2=test" etc, however that >seemed to fail as the command was not understood (which I didn't think it would >understand from the command line!). > > I've also tried to create a HTML page from within Perl and use an auto-submit to >send the data to the remote server, however this returns the output to the browser, >rather than my program. > > I'm sure this has been done before .... if you know how I can do this, I'd >appreciate a direct email as I'm on the digest list, and may not get the response >until tomorrow. Check out: LWP::UserAgent (from libwww-perl) and Crypt::SSLeay -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles http://www.wgn.net/~dbe/ / ) /--< o // // Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dbecoll.webjump.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://www.freeyellow.com/members/dbecoll/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-web
