# Need help with Flash(8) and Perl interaction

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-flash-8-and-perl-interaction/203450>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 11, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-flash-8-and-perl-interaction/203450 "2006-10-11T06:43:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![vega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b19c9b/32.png) [@vega](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vega)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-with-flash-8-and-perl-interaction/203450/1 "2006-10-11T06:43:59Z")

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I am trying to make flash pass values to a backend script (local, not web based) which will then do some analysis/authentication thingy and then store the result s and other stuffs in data files (which are .txt for now). I started with trying to make a flash based login screen which authenticates using a perl script which matched the values passed and then stores the result to a txt file - which is then read by Flash. I was able to make it work when I ran the script on my Apache server.

The problem comes when trying to make it work locally. First of all, is it even possible to use Perl for this task ? If yes then can someone please point me to the right way of doing this. I have thought about calling the Perl script from a batch files but then I will not be able to pass variables to it (username, passwords…etc). Calling the script from the loadVars/loadVaraibles/loadVariablesNum/getURL does not seem to work for me (If there is a way to use them for this then please let me know). I would really like to use Perl for this as I am learning it atm and it will greatly help me in future.

I have alse done some digging on the net about native support in flash for interaction with database but all I could find about was some articles about Flash Remoting - which seemed only to work for applications made in ColdFusion and such.

Will appreciate any help I can get. Thanks 🙂