Include() with cgi problems

Dear friends,

I have a big problem. With an usersonline script I need to extract in
php the output of a cgi using buffering output in this way:

<?php
ob_start();
include('/home/mysite/public_html/cgi-bin/usersonline/online.cgi');
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $contents;
?>

In this way the code of the cgi is displayed, not executed. Why? I need
to execute and catch the output in this way...with
include('http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/usersonline/online.cgi') works
well but the requestes come with the same ip (my server) and this is
not the results which I want.

Thanks,

Vincenzo, Rome, IT

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> Dear friends,
>
> I have a big problem. With an usersonline script I need to extract in
> php the output of a cgi using buffering output in this way:
>
> <?php
> ob_start();
> include('/home/mysite/public_html/cgi-bin/usersonline/online.cgi');
> $contents = ob_get_contents();
> ob_end_clean();
> echo $contents;
> ?>
>
> In this way the code of the cgi is displayed, not executed. Why? I need
> to execute and catch the output in this way...with
> include('http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/usersonline/online.cgi') works
> well but the requestes come with the same ip (my server) and this is
> not the results which I want.


The thing is that php executes only php code. if you include some other
language, it won't execute it. Hence including the code in this case doesn't
work. And while reguesting it from the server did work, like you mentioned,
it does make the caller of the script the server and no the user. That's a
tricky situation and I see no other solutions than to modify the users
online script, if you can.



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