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Jeff Pinyan

An Overview of CGI.pm

• What is CGI?
  • Common Gateway Interface
  • available to ANY programming language -- not Perl specific
• How can it be used?
  • getting content from a user
  • examples
    • guestbook
    • chat
    • file upload
  • sending dynamic data to a user
    • counter
    • search engine
    • part of my web site
• CGI.pm
  • why NOT to use cgi-lib.pl
  • advantages of CGI.pm
  • storing and retrieving queries
  • working with CGI.pm
• Security
  • what is tainting?
  • safely storing and retrieving query data