Re: [MacPerl] Server Side Includes

[spearce@injersey.com (Shawn Pearce)]

At 3:19 PM 1/26/96, Tim Endres wrote:
>In Regards to your letter <822673847.11894.0@afco.demon.co.uk>:
>> According to NCSA on this subject, the following line in an HTML page:
>>
>>         <!--#exec cgi="path/to/script.cgi"-->
>>
>> should run <script.cgi>.
>>
>> Using MacHTTP, Netscape and CGI-glue for the script I find MacPerl does not
>> launch and the script does not run.
>>
>> Is it that MacHTTP is incapable of SSI, or is there something missing
>>somewhere?
>
>I am doubtful that MacHTTP supports the include syntax.
>Maybe WebSTAR?
>

Nothing on the mac supports ssi itself.  What you'd have to do would be
write a preprocessor to run all those files through MacPerl.  I did.  But
it's slow.  Watch out!

Shawn.

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