Since your remote program is accessible through a browser, look at LWP: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/docs/site/lib/LWP.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mortimer, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 8:59 PM Subject: the Perl way to fire a remote executable program > > 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. > > Thanks in advance!! > > Richard > > > -J. Richard Mortimer -webmaster -Motorcharge - > * P: (08) 9202 4087 > * F: (08) 9242 2756 > * e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * w: <http://www.motorcharge.com.au> > ________________________________________________________________________ > This Correspondence is Private and Confidential and is for the use of the addressee only. > ________________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Web mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-web > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Web mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-web
