Aha! This seems to be the answer. Check out MicroWeb, a PC product that promises to "Create a working web site on a CD-ROM." It's from the same company as IndigoPERL.

http://www.indigostar.com/microweb.htm

Still no Mac solution, alas.

Timothy_Spalding@ hmco.com To: "Scot Robnett"
<sc...@insiteful.tv> cc: begi...@perl.org,
tom...@sonofagun.co.uk 07/23/2002 11:54 Subject: RE: Running CGIs
offline AM

Right. I have a deep faith that a skilled Unix hacker could run CGIs on a toaster. But I'm looking for something for someone who has trouble running toast on a toaster.

Here's something one could do, at least with MacPerl

1. create Macperl runtime 2. have the HTML link to this runtime 3. the runtime writes an HTML page 4. the runtime launches the document it wrote, dumping it in the browser

I presume the same sort of thing can work on a PC, but I don't find this a very elegant or robust way of doing things. For another thing, how do you send information from the browser (ie. a form), and have the Perl runtime *receive* it. If all you can do it trigger imput-less scripts, you might as well not do it. The only way I could think of doing it would be if the HTML put the form response into the URL, and the Perl runtime *read the browser's history file*. How's that for a way-off idea?

To open the problem somewhat, I want to produce a CD based on HTML, which interacts easily with locally-stored files. Javascript and Java applets have sandboxes. Server-side PERL can read and write files to its heart's content, and I like writing it. On the other hand a Perl interpreter browser plug-in, would probably raise security problems.

Thanks for all these great comments, Tim

"Scot Robnett"

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Subject: RE: Running CGIs offline 07/23/2002 11:26

AM

Although these are good suggestions, I think they miss the original intention. We were looking for something that we could distribute on CD and have it run, regardless of whether the user had Perl or a web server installed on their workstation. And then Bob Showalter said:

-----Original Message----- From: Bob Showalter Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 1:13 PM Subject: RE: Running CGIs offline

HTTP::Daemon, part of Bundle::libwww

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