Re: [Slashcode-general] Has anyone been able to do a SSI replacement/kluge?

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

barry wrote:

> I am trying to hook up a banner ad system that normally works vi SSI.

The only clean way I know is to print out your SSI commands as usual
(<!--#include--> and the like) and then feed the output to SSIChain a in
a OutputChain that will post-process it. This has to be configured in
Apache - see the documentation for Apache::SSIChain

http://search.cpan.org/doc/JANPAZ/Apache-OutputChain-0.07/SSIChain.pm

> I tried to modify the templates with various combinations of code that
> looks like this (the intent is to make an actually http request to the url
> that will serve the ad - the url works directly from the browser)
> 
> [%
> USE ua=LWP.UserAgent;
> USE req=HTTP.Request;
> %]

IMHO you are trying to make a big mess of it.

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