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RE: Executing cgi-script from minivend page



At 03:05 PM 6/22/99 , Thompson-Jordan wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan"
<Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******
>
>Tough to do without frames.
>
>Write Perl to suck in the UPS page. Then strip off the outer part of the
>page, put your own code around it and output it.
>
>Then give me a copy of it (my idea :-). I'd like to do the same thing and
>would be willing to help.
>
>Christopher Thompson

	Heck, spawn a new window.  <A HREF="upslookup.cgi" TARGET=upswindow>Open
the UPS tracking CGI in a new window</A>

That's a no-brainer.


>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
>> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Dmitriy Katsman
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 11:34 AM
>> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
>> Subject: Re: Executing cgi-script from minivend page
>>
>>
>> ******    message to minivend-users from 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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