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Re: XML-RPC, Object serialization, Perl

Author:Emmanuel M. Décarie
Posted:1/13/1999; 9:32:41 AM
Topic:XML-RPC, Object serialization, Perl
Msg #:2094 (In response to 2087)
Prev/Next:2093 / 2095

it might be a good place to start if your goal is call Perl procedures from Frontier.

I guess using CGIs to talk to Perl and get the result back to Frontier is easily doable.

For example I tested this yesterday and it worked like a charm (but its not very useful and can be dangerous also). Its a Perl script that will do a little bit what is doing fileloop. You have to put it somewhere in in your public_html directory.

The Perl script goes like this:

#!/local/bin/perl5 -w


$dir = "$ENV\{'QUERY_STRING'}";


print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n";


opendir(DIR, "$dir") or die "Erreur : $!";
while (defined ($f = readdir(DIR)) ) {
        if (-f "$dir$f") {
                print "$f\n";
        }
}
closedir(DIR);

Then you can call this script from Frontier like this:

local(url = "http://www.nowhere.org/cgi-bin/perlScript?/home/me/public_html/images/");
tcpcmd.getUrl(url, saveas: @temp.unixDir)

Perl will return a string with the files in the directorie "/images/".

So provided somebody have some time to do this, it could be possible to write a suite that can glue some part of Perl to Frontier.

Cheers

-Emmanuel

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