Perl and CGI

Week 2, class 2

The goal for the next two discussions to to work through the PERL/CGI Tutorial.

Today's discussion is oriented toward the mechanics of writing a "Hello, World!" program in Perl, invoking it through CGI, and producing a response in HTML. The next discussion will address the problem of extracting data sent to a Perl program through the CGI. We'll look at several different ways of doing this.

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Topics

• Schedule
• Note: project description due date
• Perl/CGI
  • Perl framework and mechanics
  • Hello, World
  • Hello, World from CGI
  • Hello, World from CGI in HTML

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Assignment for Next Class

• Read Perl/CGI Tutorial, steps 5 - 7.