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From: Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Re: Calling BETA programs from within HTML documents
Date: 30 Jun 1998 10:01:13 +0200
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Sascha Kimmel <pkb089@salami4.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> I want to use BETA instead of Perl for evaluating forms from within HTML
> documents.
> The HTML document looks as follows:
[...]
> <form action="./commandline" action="get">
> <input type="text" size="50" name="textfeld">
> <input type="submit" value="Abschicken">
> </form>
[...]
> When I call this program directly everything works as it should.
> But when I try to execute it using the form on the HTML page I get the
> following in my browser:
> ELF[...]

This is the binary of commandline.  I don't think the above html would
work, even if you substituted the commandline-program with a Perl-script.

The webserver needs to know where cgi-programs can be placed.
For the Apache and NCSA web-servers, you can use something like

	ScriptAlias /cgi-lbr/      /users/lbr/public_html/scripts/

in the srm.conf file.  Then you can place commandline in the scripts
directory under your public_html directory, and refer to it as 
	<form action="/cgi-lbr/commandline" method="post">

(Note that you duplicate the action keyword in your form above.)

Some/most of the cgi-scripts in use at Mjølner are written in BETA.

Best regards,
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen, Software Engineer, Mjolner Informatics ApS
lbr@mjolner.dk