Writing from Perl to an Open Window

[Rick7]

Hi, All:

I have spent much time Googling today trying to find out how to write data from a Perl Script to an existing HTML window. Well, I gave up on Google. There must be a way to do it.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Rick

 

[PaulTEG]

Can you be more specific?
--Paul

 

[Rick7]

If I output HTML from Perl it usually spawns a new window.

My question: Lets say that I use Javascript to open an HTML window (so I have the window handle) can I direct my output from a Perl program to that open window? It would be nice if I could direct to output to a specific region of the page by using an element's ID, but it would not be a problem if I needed to re-write/replace the HTML in the window.

Thanks,

Rick

 

[tviman]

Are you calling your script from the new page? If so, and you don't have any perl code that is creating a new page, then the script output should appear in the open HTML page.

There's always a better way. The fun is trying to find it!

 

[Rick7]

Yes. The script would be called from the open window. If you use the print <<HTML; or just print commands from perl, it creates a new window. How do I direct it to write to an already open window/page? More specifically, how do I get write to a specific area of a page?

On this open page, it will ask a series of questions. I would like the answers/output to be written to the open page. I did not really want to re-create the page each time.


Rick

 

[parkers]

If you want to dynamically write to the open page without re-loading then you are talking javascript.

You could experiment with FRAMES or IFRAMES so that only a section of the open window is re-loaded? This adds a little complexity to the HTML code however it may be what you need?