calling a perl script with javascript

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February 25th, 2001, 10:04 PM

dman

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I am calling a perl script when a user exits a page through javascript with something like the following:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function person_out()
{
document.writeln("<scr" + "ipt language='javascript' src='/cgi-bin/script.pl?foo=" + variable + "'>");
document.writeln("</scr" + "ipt>");
}
</script>
.
.
.
<BODY onUnload="person_out".......>

This works in Netscape but not in IE. When the script is called from my html page in IE, I get a blank screen. When I view the source, all I see is the <script language="javascript" src ="/cgi-bin/script.pl?...">. All the rest of the other javascript and html code is gone.

I know that the script is executed because it does what it's supposed to do. And the reason it has to be onUnload is because I want to know how long the user stays on the page.

Any help would be appreciated.

February 26th, 2001, 02:28 PM

ajax

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It would be better to have this as a complete redirect in JS and PERL. Add another part of your PERL script that takes them to the actual link.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function person_out(variable,linkvar)
{
window.location("/cgi-bin/script.pl?foo=" + variable + "&link=" + linkVar);
}
</script>

then you links will be
<a href="javascript:person_out(timeFunction(),'page.html');">link</a>

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