[NTLUG:Discuss] ...Perl in Netscape on Linux...

[Chris Cox]

I don't think there's a client-side plugin for perl.

You either can run it as a cgi... or with mod-perl under
your web server.  In either case, you'll want to start up
a local web server (on localhost probably).

In both cases, the processing is done on the server (the
web server machine)... not inside the browser.  The browser
simply receives the information that the server-side perl
generates.

I'm probably not being too clear... my thoughts are elsewhere.
Anybody have a good link they can share about doing perl
in cgi or mod-perl?

Thanks,
Chris

Fred James wrote:
> 
> I am trying to run Perl in Netscape on Linux and not having a lot of
> success.
> I don't have access to a WEB server that would allow me to try it there,
> so I am doing all my testing on a single box, just opening the pages in
> my browser.
> I suspect that the problem is in "helper applications" but I am not
> sure.
> Can anyone shed any light here?
> 
> Edit->Preferences->Applications
>     Description: Perl Programs
>        MIMEType: application/x-perl
>        Suffixes: pl cgi
> "Use this MIME as the outgoing default for these extensions" is not
> checked.
> "Application" is selected, and the application is "/usr/bin/perl"
> 
> x-perl is not found on this machine, but /usr/bin/perl is.
> 
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