- Nov 2, 2008
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I have a Perl script that runs locally on my system. It aggregates data from some websites and outputs the result into a text file.
Is it possible for me to browser-ify this? In the sense, to host the script somewhere online and open the script-page in a browser window. Then, the browser should do the aggregation and give a dialog-box to save the text file locally.
I use different systems and not all of them have Perl installed. That's what led me to this. For that matter, if the above functionality can be achieved, I'm willing to learn another language as well.
Based on the little I know, HTML is for display-purposes, it won't command the browser to do anything else, so I can't use that. And PLEASE don't suggest running a 'web-service'. That's an over-kill. I want my browser to do this, not a remote server.
Puzzled,
-chronodekar
Is it possible for me to browser-ify this? In the sense, to host the script somewhere online and open the script-page in a browser window. Then, the browser should do the aggregation and give a dialog-box to save the text file locally.
I use different systems and not all of them have Perl installed. That's what led me to this. For that matter, if the above functionality can be achieved, I'm willing to learn another language as well.
Based on the little I know, HTML is for display-purposes, it won't command the browser to do anything else, so I can't use that. And PLEASE don't suggest running a 'web-service'. That's an over-kill. I want my browser to do this, not a remote server.
Puzzled,
-chronodekar