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Robin
What's the difference between .plx and .pl when used with cgi?
cc to address below.
cc to address below.
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Brad Baxter
none.
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Matt Garrish
Brad Baxter said:
Not true, generally speaking. When you install ActivePerl on a Windoze
system .pl is mapped to the perl executable while .plx gets mapped to the
perlis.dll, which is what I assume he's after.
To our good friend the OP, take your own advice and RTFM to find out why
that makes a difference...
Matt
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Sherm Pendley
Robin said:
In the context of handling a form posting to a web server, .plx is most
commonly used on Windows servers for ISAPI scripts. ISAPI is the IIS
server's moral equivalent of mod_perl.
Unless you've moved to a Windows server, you can't use it. Unless you need
to handle an absurdly high amount of traffic, you don't need it. And unless
you're an advanced Perl programmer, you won't know how to write for it.
In other words, you probably can't use it, almost certainly don't need it,
and definitely aren't (yet) ready for it. So fuhgeddaboudit. ;-)
sherm--
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Brad Baxter
Hmmm. Wrong twice in one night. I think I'll give it a break.
Regards,
Brad
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Jürgen Exner
Robin said:
The letter "x"
Huh? Why would anyone want to do do that?
jue
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Tassilo v. Parseval
Also sprach Jürgen Exner:
Maybe because he asks for it? It's not a violation against usenet
etiquette to request a CCed reply since there'll still be a follow-up in
the group for others to see.
Tassilo
Maybe because he asks for it? It's not a violation against usenet
etiquette to request a CCed reply since there'll still be a follow-up in
the group for others to see.
Tassilo
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Robin
actually I know quite a bit about nt servers.... plx would probably be coolSherm Pendley said:
though.
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Robin
Tassilo v. Parseval said:
gotcha. Thanks- robin
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Sherm Pendley
Robin said:
.... and little about Perl. You're not ready for advanced Perl topics. Heck,
you're barely beginning to get a grasp on the basics.
sherm--
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Tad McClellan
Robin said:
Do you have any bridges for sale?
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Uri Guttman
TM> Do you have any bridges for sale?
i do! and there are no trolls hiding underneath.
uri
i do! and there are no trolls hiding underneath.
uri
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Sherm Pendley
Tad said:
I'll give you one for free! (Link is in my .sig) ;-)
sherm--
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Arvin Portlock
Robin said:
Assuming you're running on a Windows machine with IIS as
your webserver and you did the default ActiveState perl
install, the difference should be mostly transparent to
you. You should have had PerlIS installed by default and
the .plx extension mapped to it. So when you write cgi
scripts, just use .plx as the extension and they will auto-
matically run much faster.
If you *didn't* use the default ActiveState install options
then good luck. Unless you do this sort of thing all the time
it's holy hell to get perl and perlIS to work with IIS.
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Robin
Tad McClellan said:
no...sorry.... I wish.
-Robin