On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 3:03 pm, PD Schloss wrote: > Hi, > > I have a perl script that I would like to make available on-line. I > suspect the target community (microbiologists) has no interest in > getting/learning perl for themselves and would prefer to use it as an > on-line resource. Since I am a newbie at much of this, I was wondering > if someone could direct me where I can learn to do this. > > My plan would be to have people upload a file and execute the script and > be able to have the results (several files) emailed to them when the > script is done running. The script can take awhile to run so it would > be good if the submitter could leave the site while the script is being > executed. I'm sorry if this idea and question seems a bit naive but I'm > not sure how/if I should go about doing this. Any suggestions would be > great. > > Thanks, > Pat
Hi Pat, If you don't want to go down the web server route, one method is to simply stick to email for both transactions. Using most mail servers, you can redirect incoming messages to a pipe and therefor to any program you wish. This script could extract the attachment, pass it to your program which then generates the resulting output files, which then get attached to an email and sent to the originating email address. If you look on CPAN (http://search.cpan.org is my favourite way) there are shed-loads of modules for extracting from and creating email messages. Gary -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
