- 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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