Re: conecting cgi and mdb? help please:)

2002-04-19 Thread Kamali Muthukrishnan
I would like to know what all needs to be done to connect to a Microsoft Access database using perl script. Can somebody guide me please ? One of the perl books' website has some information , but I think the server where the document resides has problems and so I am not able to get to it. Any w

RE: conecting cgi and mdb? help please:)

2002-04-19 Thread David Gray
> I would like to know what all needs to be done to connect to > a Microsoft Access database using perl script. 1) You need two modules: DBI and DBD::ODBC 2) You need to create an ODBC data source referring to the database file. 3) Connect to the database like this: $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:O

RE: conecting cgi and mdb? help please:)

2002-04-19 Thread Kamali Muthukrishnan
Hi : Thanks a bunch. For the first module, I would do - install dbi For the second module for the Open DB Connectivity , will I do something similar like this ? - install dbd::odbc "need to create an ODBC data source referring to the database file" - could you please explain th

RE: conecting cgi and mdb? help please:)

2002-04-19 Thread David Gray
> Hi : > Thanks a bunch. For the first module, I would do - >install dbi > For the second module for the Open DB Connectivity , will I > do something similar like this ? - > install dbd::odbc > "need to create an ODBC data source referring to the > database file" - could you

application passwords

2002-04-19 Thread Adam Wesselink
Hi all I'm trying to figure out how to simplify my passwords. I have a cgi that requires a login. Is there a way to have that application use the system password (just to authenticate a user)? Where can I find information on this? What are the security concerns? Thanks Adam -- To unsu

RE: conecting cgi and mdb? help please:)

2002-04-19 Thread Kamali Muthukrishnan
Thank you once again. I am on Win32 machine using ActivePerl. I had been doing Google search for the past few hours. There, sometimes you hit dirt ( like in my case for the past 5 hours) and sometimes gold . I hit one site which seems to give a lot of information on this - http://www.wdvl.com

Oracle stored procedures and Perl CGI

2002-04-19 Thread nair
Has anyone executed a stored procedures from a perl CGI. I am having problems when there are many rows returned. I need to finish this soon so please help. Murli The following is my pl/sql code CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE new_worker_select_cur ( f_name IN OUT varchar2, l

Run process in background

2002-04-19 Thread Alex Read
Hi all, I have an html page that when I press the submit button the cgi script runs a shell script. I am having trouble because the html page hangs until the shell script has finished, i.e. the shell script process is not running in the background. I have tried the following; system "$my_shell_

Re: log-in/out w/o cookies

2002-04-19 Thread Teresa Raymond
You're right, I didn't test before I posted. >"Teresa Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:p05100301b8de2cf961a1@[67.36.181.234]... >> What I've done is: >> >> 1) have login page w/ hidden input name="formname" w/ some value leads to >> 2) cgi prog that cks that formname eq "som

Re: Run process in background

2002-04-19 Thread fliptop
Alex Read wrote: > I have an html page that when I press the submit button the cgi script > runs a shell script. I am having trouble because the html page hangs > until the shell script has finished, i.e. the shell script process is > not running in the background. I have tried the following; >

RE: Run process in background

2002-04-19 Thread leandro
Unsubscribe Unsubscribe "*" Unsubscribe * Unsubscribe me, please from all of these lists. Bye, Leandro. > -Original Message- > From: Alex Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Run process in background > > Hi all, > > I h

Re: Run process in background

2002-04-19 Thread John Brooking
This is an aside, but does the statement you are executing come as a parameter from the HTML form? If so, I presume you are aware that this is a very dangerous practice, unless you have secured the form page somehow (behind your firewall, etc.), and even then I wouldn't be comfortable with it. Wha

Oracle stored procedures and Perl CGI

2002-04-19 Thread T. Murlidharan Nair
Hi All: This for the benifit of all. I had a wonderful time discussing this topic with David Kirol (one of the members in the list) and was finally able to solve it. David had the following comments " I can think of two approaches. The first involves dynamically creating a temporary table

Re: Oracle stored procedures and Perl CGI

2002-04-19 Thread Dave K
The discussion was a learning experience for me as well, (again I learned the DBI and DBD can do!) David Kirol "T. Murlidharan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi All: > > This for the benifit of all. I had a wonderful time discussing this >

Re: Perl CGI with ISP - advice?

2002-04-19 Thread Todd Wade
"Zentara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:17:59 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John > Brooking) wrote: > > For instance, I wanted to use Crypt::RC4 on a remote server. > Using the above unshift, I upload Crypt::RC4 but it wouldn't work > un