Can I use SRC tag to run .cgi program?? Please help.

[perlguy]

hi there,
I have a very simple question. Is it possible to run ".cgi" or ".pl" program using javascript SRC tag? e.g.
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot; SRC=&quot;

http://www.xxxx.com/cgi-bin/stats.cgi&quot;></SCRIPT>

Is there any drawback of doing this ?
Does anyone know what browser supports &quot;SRC&quot; tag??

Appreciated.

 

[rycamor]

Of course you can do this, but you need to be careful about what header requirements the CGI script has (Referrer, etc...). I don't know if the browser sends the same request headers for a file requested as a script source, so if your CGI script is looking for certain things, and not finding them, then it might not load correctly. Debugging this is also a pain, because the browser will not show you any error output, unless that error is output in the form of a Javascript document.write() operation.