Hi Molly, On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:11:06PM -0800, Molly Magai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > Does anyone know how to have a cgi script send a POST request to an > unrelated Web page?
Have you looked at the LWP::* modules? > Here's why: We're getting a new NT server. We currently run our pages on > CGI scripts, but we're planning to move all our hosting to ASP in the > next few months. In the meanwhile, we'll be running CGI on the new (ASP and Perl are both forms of CGI scripting) > server. Since ASP has a built-in mail function, my boss doesn't want to ASP has it's own mail server built-in? Scary. > I'd love to hear from anyone who has the experience to tell me: Is my > boss brilliant, or crazy? Can this be done, and if so, how? Why are you moving from Perl to ASP? Perl does run fine under NT (with IIS and Apache). Anyways, look into the LWP modules which should help you with this problem. > (By the way, i'm aware that cheaper alternatives to SendMail exist - > we're looking into that too.) Why do you need to have the webserver and the mail server on the same box? A small FreeBSD (Linux, etc...) box running SendMail or Postfix (what I use) outside of the web server is pretty logical. Cheers, Kevin -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Never laugh at a live dragon. -- The Hobbit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
