kick off perl script from asp web form

[jwallz]

Hi

we have a perl script at work which we run manually from time to time to move files from our staging environment to our live environment. As part of an application I'm working on i'd like to incorporate a buttom on a web form which would kick off this perl script when neccessary. Is there any way to do this?

John

[gRoberts]

well most perl/cgi scripts allow you to use querystrings.. Saying that, why don't you use asp to do this?

Basically all you would need to do is tell the script to either run when called in the browser ( which it should do without any activation ) or use a querystring to activate it.

ie. http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/_admin...l?action=start
or. http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/_admin/transfiles.pl

Providing you had setup querystrings to activate the script on the above url, then it should work, otherwise you can just call the file it's self.

Gav