SSI in CGI

[sagethefreak]

is it possible to include SSI in a CGI page?
what i want to do is include the header.txt in the cgi ouput.. is it possible?

[Dusty]

Why would you need SSI to do that? Just open the file and print it out within the script:

open(FILE,"<header.txt");
while(<FILE>){
print $_;
}
close(FILE);

[LastActionHero]

I think hayama mentioned some function like getprint()

[Dusty]

That's an LWP function, it does the exact same thing as "get" except instead of dropping it into a variable it's prints it out.

But really, the file's locally hosted, there's no need to bog down the script with LWP (which is used mainly to retrieve remote files). Just open it and print it out.

[sagethefreak]

Originally posted by Dusty
Why would you need SSI to do that? Just open the file and print it out within the script:

open(FILE,"<header.txt");
while(<FILE>){
print $_;
}
close(FILE);

thanks, i dont really know CGI, thats why i couldnt figure it out. :P

[niv]

(It's Perl, not CGI. CGI can take many forms. Anyway,...)

In the future, if you're calling a script like a Perl script, you may want to specify variables beforehand and make the script that is being called a subroutine or just get rid of the #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top of it, and add a 1 at the end of it.