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Pattay
Pattay

Reputation: 329

Putting CGI script in HTML page

I don't know much about web programming and I would really appreciate the help on this.

I have an HTML page that has an input field:

<input type="text" size=20 />

I want to run a CGI script that will return a value so that I can put it in the input field as a default when the page first loads.

So it would look like this I guess:

<input type="text" size=20 value=Run CGI script />

The script is a shell script that I named hostname.cgi and it contains the following:

#!/bin/sh

printf "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
printf $REMOTE_ADDR

When I try using 

value=<!--include virtual="hostname.cgi" -->

I get an error on the HTML page that says an error occurred while running this directive (or something like that).

What am I doing wrong? Also, the script is in the same directory as the html file. Other CGI scripts on the page work just fine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 647

Answers (2)

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201896

To put some default value somewhere as generated by a CGI script, you need to make the entire page generated by a CGI script. This means that the address of the page would be a reference to such a script. The details depend on the programming language used for the CGI script.

Upvotes: 1

Jason Huntley
Jason Huntley

Reputation: 3877

Not sure what you're trying to do here, I would really have to see the whole code. However, I suspect it's somethign to do with your format and the action defined:

<form action="/some_script_name" method="post">
<input type="text" name="ab" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

You also need to surround attributes with quotes:

<input type="text" size="20" value="Run CGI script" />

Upvotes: 1

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