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Executing a python script from an HTML link?

Andrew Chalk achalk at XXXmagnacartasoftware.com
Tue Sep 23 13:32:45 EDT 2003 
Thanks. I want to run the script on the server. The problem is that I don't
have an html page as an HREF. Viz:

<tr><A HREF="Fred.htm">Fred</A>
What replaces Fred.htm to invoke a server-side script?
Regards.


"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote in message
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> "Andrew Chalk" <achalk at XXXmagnacartasoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:tMYbb.382$zy3.566196578 at newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...
> > Is this possible? In my CGI app. I display a web page with a link
> (anchor).
> > When the link is clicked I want to exectute a python script rather than
go
> > to an HTML page.
>
> Do you want to run the script on the server or the client? If you
> want to run it on the client, you can use Python instead of Javascript
> (or in addition to Javascript) in the web page. Look at the <script>
> tag for the language (I think that's the one - I haven't looked it up
> recently) attribute. Otherwise, just invoke Python the same way you would
> invoke any other executable, and use the script name as the
> first parameter.
>
> John Roth
>
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> >
>
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