Summary

In this hour, you learned how HTML forms and CGI programs interact and how to have your CGI programs interpret the contents of forms with the CGI module's param function. Also, you learned what to do to make your CGI programs more secure and how to handle tainted data. You also looked at a simple CGI guestbook application, ready to customize and modify for your own uses.

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