Hi cjccropper,
I have the same setup: everything on a single xp machine. I had to do very little, just install Apache HTTP server and ActivePerl for my cgi scripts. ActivePerl has some very handy objects to get the query data from the server. What do you mean "not setup to run a fully...
So it turns out I needed an http server, like Apache. After installing that, I can run html forms that run cgi Perl scripts, so I'm OK, no more problems.
If anyone stumbles on this thread, it might be useful to know that, if you're testing forms and cgi on the same machine, the...
Thanks tviman, I should have provided it. This is my first cgi, note that I'm just running this all on a single Windows XP machine, using just IE6.0 and ActivePerl.
Here's the html form:
<html>
<head>
<title> Testing HTML forms</title>
</head>
<body>
Tuesday</font><br>
<form...
I have an html form that does seem to execute the ActivePerl code I have on my Windows XP machine, but the cgi does not seem to receive any data from the html form whether I use post or get. Note that the html form and the Perl cgi script are on the same Windows XP machine.
I know the Perl...
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