RE: SSI and CGI

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Hiya,

All my pages are normal, static HTML. Nothing too complex, just a few
JavaScript calls for the links. I'm using SSI tags to help make life
easier. I'm using a combination of 'include virtual' and 'exec cgi'.
'include virtual' are just the rest of the static html. Anything with
'exec cgi' are totally dynamic. The CGI all works fine, and I don't
have a problem with any of it. it's all thoroughly tested in DOS
(using a BEGIN routine for DOS calling).

In News.shtml. The article in question might be in the middle, end or
beginning. Using news.pl, I check the contents listing, and then
decide whether to have 'next' and 'previous' and then link them to the
correct article.

BTW I'm using Apache 1.3.9 Win32 (on w:/usr/apache), and ActivePerl
522 (on w:/usr/perl). The web site is on w:/web. Everything is
configured and the html itself isn't causing a problem.

What I can't do, as I said, it to pass across the variables needed to
select what I'm going to do in the script. So far I've tried:

<!--#exec cgi"/cgi-bin/news.pl?b"-->
<!--#exec cgi"/cgi-bin/news.pl\?b"-->
<!--#exec cgi"/cgi-bin/news.pl" "b"-->

but for the first two I get:

[Thu Jan 13 19:12:51 2000] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] invalid CGI ref
"/cgi-bin/news.pl\?b" in w:/web/home.shtml
[Thu Jan 13 19:13:02 2000] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] invalid CGI ref
"/cgi-bin/news.pl?b" in w:/web/home.shtml

and the last runs, but dies because it's not been told to do anything.
The extra "b" does nothing.

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