StarDestroyer.Net BBS

How do I pull and push values from a cgi script. I want to make a perl script which just recieves hits from a javascript, and adds it to a value currently stored in a file somewhere. That part is easy. The hard part is making a javascript that sends a hit to the cgi script if the user does not have a cookie signifying he/she has not visited the site before. The problem is I don't know how to make Javascript just accept output from a cgi script like a return value.

Please?

Oh I just made a new webpage for school. It's full of anti MS filler BS material that isn't meant to be read though. Links are too dark and almost unreadable. *shrugs*

BTW, free.prohosting.com seems like a good hosting service. Gives you a cgi-bin too. I think you can set up php there, but I'm not sure.

NM, I think you can access cookies directly w/ perl. Now just need to learn how to do that...

Get PHP and learn it... Your life will suddenly become a lot easier

Nah, I would prefer to use perl CGI since you can also use it to do many other things. If you really wanted to, you could also write a CGI program in shell script too.