I think I had to compile apahe for use with perl. I think in iis you need to specify how to deal with perl and cgi. Been a long time since I used iis.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cgi Win xp Perl same issues. If it's a pl file it tries to download. If its .cgi then it just displays my code. > -----Original Message----- > From: david [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Cgi Win xp Perl > > > Paul Kraus wrote: > > > It still just displays the contents of my script rather > then running > > it. > > > > have you try the '?' trick? if no, try something like: > http://your.server/your.cgi-bin/your_script.pl?whatever the '?whatever' portion might give enough a hint to IIS that the request is a CGI request. if that works, you can do the same thing with the form stuff. of course, it's better to actually fix IIS then going around the problem. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]