"Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I feel fairly stupid ... but to my defense in the past 17 years of coding, > i've only spent 3 days looking at web stuff: > > I now can understand how "writing" to an existing form field from a cgi > script might not work: how would the browser know ?: unless there is a very > sophisticated scheme there (as those used in image transfer), I assume the > complete page would have to be sent back: so might as well > regenerate/rewrite everything. > > Yes ? > > I so, I'm back to finding a way for a browser plugin and a server based cgi > script to exchange information. > > Any idea welcome... I know I don't want to open another socket/port but > stick to http:80
Then you're out of luck. You can't even depend on their being an open http connection available to use when the plugin runs. The browser may well do: Load all data. Close connections. Render page as far as we can. Launch code objects that we loaded. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list