Mike Meyer wrote: > "Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I feel fairly stupid ... but to my defense in the past 17 years of >> coding, i've only spent 3 days looking at web stuff: >> >> I now can understand how "writing" to an existing form field from a cgi >> script might not work: how would the browser know ?: unless there is a >> very sophisticated scheme there (as those used in image transfer), I >> assume the complete page would have to be sent back: so might as well >> regenerate/rewrite everything. >> >> Yes ? >> >> I so, I'm back to finding a way for a browser plugin and a server based >> cgi script to exchange information. >> >> Any idea welcome... I know I don't want to open another socket/port but >> stick to http:80 > > Then you're out of luck. You can't even depend on their being an open > http connection available to use when the plugin runs. The browser may > well do: Load all data. Close connections. Render page as far as we > can. Launch code objects that we loaded. > > <mike But the plugin "opened" the connection: var l_w = window.open(l_url,"");
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