Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours

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Hour 20. Manipulating HTTP and CGI

In this hour, you'll learn a host of interesting things you can do with the Web by using CGI programs to help you make your Web site a little more flexible and easy to manage.

In this hour you'll learn

How HTML gets from the server to your browser
How to have CGI programs send things other than HTML
How to pass values directly to CGI programs
How server-side includes work
How to query the browser and the server for information

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