• Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl in a Week
    • Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl in a Week
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • About the Author
    • Introduction
  • 1
    • An Introduction to CGI and Its Environment
  • 2
    • Understanding How the Server and Browser Communicate
  • 3
    • Using Server Side Include Commands
  • 4
    • Using Forms to Gather and Send Data
  • 5
    • Decoding the Data Sent to Your CGI Program
  • 6
    • How To Use Environment Variables in Your Programs
  • 7
    • Building an On-Line Catalog
  • 8
    • Using Existing CGI Libraries
  • 9
    • Using Image Maps on Your Web Page
  • 10
    • Keeping Track of Your Web Page Visitors
  • 11
    • Using Internet Mail with Your Web Page
  • 12
    • Guarding Your Server against Unwanted Guests
  • 13
    • Debugging CGI Programs
  • 14
    • Tips, Tricks, and Future Directions
  • APPENDIX A
  • APPENDIX B
    • HTML FORMS
    • The following information is a subset of an Internet-draft known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol[md]HTTP/1.0 and is available at
  • APPENDIX C
    • Status Codes and Reason Phrases
    • The following information is a subset of an Internet-draft known as Hypertext Transfer Protocol—HTTP/1.0 and is available at
  • APPENDIX D
    • The NCSA imagemap.c program