can anyone help this newbie

**mex30** · 08-01-2003, 10:13 AM

can anyone tell me how to get the source of .cgi or .pl extension files...

Some of the source can be taken from the view source but some of the scripts are being redirected to some other error pages so is there any possibility to get the script of those .pl or .cgi extension.

also if anyone knows a free script that can send mails like those of form mailers but with features like : To, CC,BCC, Message, From, Preview, etc.....pliz do let me know.

thanx in advance...

**techwench** · 08-01-2003, 10:24 AM

Well, first of all, it's kind of not a good idea to steal other people's source. Well, let me rephrase that....because that's how we all learned was looking at the examples of others. But as far as scripts go, you'd be better off going to somewhere like

http://www.hotscripts.com
http://cgi.resourceindex.com
http://php.resourceindex.com

P.S.: Welcome to WT!

**mex30** · 08-01-2003, 10:55 AM

**theblt** · 08-01-2003, 11:27 AM

You can't view <php> tags anyways by just looking at the source in notepad.

**neOnbubble** · 08-01-2003, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mex30
can anyone tell me how to get the source of .cgi or .pl extension files...

If you have direct access to them on a network, or computer, or have FTP access then you can open them up and look; no problem. However you obviously don't. If the files in question are on a webserver and that webserver has CGI support then there's nothing you can do to view the source code because what is stored and what you see are two totally different things - the webserver will pass your request to a parsing engine which will execute the .pl or .cgi files and return some output. The webserver will then return this output to you but what you get won't be the source. Same applies for .asp, .php, .aspx, etc. If it was a simple matter to view the source of of those files then there wouldn't be a secure system on the internet ... well, there probably isn't but you get the point.

**nakulgoyal** · 08-02-2003, 08:10 PM

CGI, Perl, PHP are server side scripting languages. You can see source for client side scripts only like Javascripy and HTML Code.

What u see for the perl/cgi script is just the HTML of the visible page.

**Corgy** · 08-24-2003, 09:08 AM

i dont know anything about CGI how does it work? i need major help