Programming CGI Applications in Perl
Perl, which you were introduced to in Chapter 18, “Developing Applications and Widgets Using Scripting Languages,” provides a quick and easy way to start developing your own web applications. Although not as elegant as PHP, Perl is an excellent starting point for learning about how web applications work. It is also a nearly universal cross-platform language with thousands of freely downloadable applications.
WHAT IS A CGI?CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. A CGI application is written to conform to a web server/application communication standard (the CGI). CGI applications pass and read their information to and from an underlying web server. The generic definition of CGI is just a standalone web application. ... |
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