[wellylug] Perl scripts not executing in Firefox

[andrej at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting John Durham <johndurh at spunge.org>:

> > Well ... if you didn't put the file in the CGI directory of your
> > web-server, and pointed firefox at that this is working as designed.
> >
> > perl isn't a client-side scripting language like JavaScript.
> It is in the cgi-bin of the web server, and the page was loaded into the
> browser by opening the page file directly from the server. If perl isn't
> a client side scripting language, then why did the script execute at the
> command prompt and not in the browser? Both were used in the same
> system.
The question, I suppose, is how you tried to access is 

http://localhost/cgi-bin/your_file.pl
or
file://vaw/www/cgi-bin/your_file.pl


In the first case (if perms are OK and apache is set-up correctly) it
will execute.

In the second case it will always open as a text-file because (as I
said) it's a server-side scripting language.  And you can't really compare
invoking a script on the commandline to opening it in a browser.

If you openend word.exe in word, what would you expect to happen?  
See gibberish or run a second instance of word?