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Perl Programming
CGI
  • CGI
    • Common Gateway Interface
    • WWW protocol for transmitting information between a browser and a web server
    • Uses HTML forms and other web protocols
  • CGI.pm
    • Perl module for CGI programming
    • Provides methods for creating HTML and processing forms
    • Some familiarity with HTML is helpful, but CGI.pm can be used as a wrapper for all HTML tags
  • LWP.pm
    • Library for Web Programming
    • Another Perl module for client-side programming
    • Methods for mirroring remote sites, obtaining web pages from a server, converting HTML to other formats, etc.
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