passing parameters from Perl to Flash

[brutfood]

I thought this would be easy - I've done this so often the other way - but this time needed to calculate some values in a Perl script to pass to flash. I assumed that I just needed to generate the text in perl, that I would normally put in a text file when I do this sort of thing. So this is the test I did:-

mytest.cgi contains:-

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI ':standard';

print "banner=hello.swf&userid=123&\n";


and my actionscript contains:-

loadVariables("http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/mytest.cgi", this);


I only included this text so you could all see how stupid I am - because it is apparent that I can barking up the wrong tree with this approach!

So, how do I do it?

I apologise most humbly for my emense ignorance.

Daniel

[nucleuz]

Have you tried it in a browser??? what is the output there??

put the following in after the #! line:

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

That should do it I think.
What (if) are the errors you get?

[brutfood]

YES!!!!- oh THANK YOU! it works.

It's 11:10pm here, and I think you've earn't me some sleep. Thanks a lot!

Daniel

[nucleuz]

No problems!
11.10pm.... hmm, where are you?? Australia?

In Brisbane myself.

[brutfood]

Adelaide