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embedded perl in IIS 4.0

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by ajd 2 views

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Is there a way to get IIS 4.0 to serve embedded perl scripts (.epl) correctly? At the moment they are being served as plain text html files, showing all the script programming.
Normal perl scripts (.pl) work OK thanks to Activestate but I can't find any mention of how to handle .epl files.

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by sergey kovzik

there is two methods to work with programming language on server-side. 1st is CGI - you know this. 2nd is Active Server Pages. You can install different scripting engines. Standard IIS supports VBScript and JScript, but you can use any other language. You need to find out corresponding ActiveX component. For Perl you can use PScript engine from www.mks.com
www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man5/pscript.5.asp
or you can look for PerlSript from www.activestate.com
aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/ActivePerl/Windows/ActiveServerPages.html
.epl - is same as .asp, may be you'll need to change scripting delimiters.

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