CGI

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 kyle at breezy.com wrote:

> What are some good tutorials out there CGI???

Hi, Kyle.

The basics of CGI are extremely simple. For output, take an existing html
page and prepend "Content-type: text/html\n\n" to it. For input, there are
two methods, "GET" and "PUT", which are encapsulated in most toolkits.

I assume you'll be using perl for your scripts, in which case you'll want
to use the CGI module that's a standard part of the Perl distribution.
I'd also recommend upgrading to the latest stable version of perl, which
is currently 5.005_03.

To invoke the script from a form: 
	<form method=post action="http://server/script.cgi";>

The command "perldoc CGI" will show you a man page for the CGI perl
module, which should get you up to speed with a little practice. 

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