[ale] netscape and CGI

[Joe Knapka]

Adam Teja wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I've got some CGI scripts that generate HTML...
> now the problem, netscape doesn't seem to
> know what to do with files with the CGI extension...

???

CGI scripts should be executed by the *server*, not
the browser. The browser should only see the output,
and never the content of the actual script. This
sounds like a misconfiguration of the server. (Unless
you really mean for the browser to be interpreting
your code, in which case it isn't CGI.)
 
> I went into the edit->prefs page and told Perl to
> interpret files with CGI extensions... now I get
> HTML code in my browser...
> 
> Question: how do I get Netscape to interpret
> the *.cgi file with perl and then interpret the
> output as HTML not text...
> 
> note... IE4 seems to be okay with what I'm doing...
> so I'm relatively sure that it's not an error within
> my script header.
> 
> Thanks,
> ART
> 
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