Re: Executing cgi-script from minivend page

[Dmitriy Katsman <dmk@acinc.com>]

Hey everyone....

I am a little 'unclear' with CGI-script executing from minivend page...
how in the world is it going to work?

CGI program always returns something as the result in HTML format..
so how is this HTML going to be displayed instead of Minivend page?
if it gets displayed, minivend will lose the control of the session

for example, is there any way to do something like UPS tracking from the site?
where customers would enter their UPS tracking number, then Minivend page will call qcost.cgi
on UPS server, and display the resulting page?  I guess... the question is how to display the
resulting page, while keeping Minivend's LOGOBAR, MENUBAR and all session stuff (I don't use
frames)

Thanks,
Dmitriy

Nick Temple wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Nick Temple <ntemple@CommerceStore.com>     ******
>
> Try:
>
> [perl]
> `/My_cgi-bin/Directory/script.cgi`;
> [/perl]
>
> Note the backticks, and remember that the safe module disallows this by
> default.
>
> A better (safer) way would probably be to create a user tag to execute
> certain cgi-scripts based upon your criteria.
>
> Nick
>
> At 10:49 PM 6/20/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from "Hans-Joachim Leidinger"
> <hans-joachim.leidinger@home.gelsen-net.de>     ******
> >
> >Hi Walter,
> >
> >There are some way to execute cgi-script. If you are able to execute a
> >cgi-script in normal (static) html-page, you have found your solution!
> >Otherwise you give us more information about your cgi-script!
> >
> >Joachim
> >
> >
> >| ******    message to minivend-users from adfranse <info@afa.nl>
> >******
> >|
> >| Hello list,
> >|
> >| I would like to execute a cgi-script from a minivend page.
> >| I've tried several things, but none of them seem to work.
> >|
> >| When trying
> >|
> >| [include file="/My_cgi-bin/Directory/script.cgi"]
> >|
> >| It displayed the script itself.
> >| So I thougt when I put this between [perl][/perl] tags it should
> >work.....
> >|
> >| I did not...
> >| I get no respons what so ever, nothing in the source, nothing in any
> >errorlog.
> >|
> >| How can this be done
> >|
> >| Greetings,
> >|
> >| Walter
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