cgi-lib.pl
At one time, the most popular Perl library used by authors of CGI scripts was cgi-lib.pl. cgi-lib.pl has been around a lot longer than CGI.pm, and was the dominant CGI library for Perl 4. After Perl 5 was released, CGI.pm became the most popular Perl library and, even though it’s bundled with the standard Perl distribution, lots of people still write CGI programs using cgi-lib.pl. The official home page for cgi-lib.pl is
The number one advantage of cgi-lib.pl is that it’s relatively simple, especially compared to CGI.pm. By way of comparison, CGI.pm is about 180Kb. cgi-lib.pl is about 15Kb. Of course, it offers an awful lot less functionality than CGI.pm does. To use cgi-lib.pl in your program, you have ...
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