CGI Programming with Perl
CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition By Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram, Gunther Birznieks
June 2000
Pages: 470

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Getting Started

    1. History

    2. Introduction to CGI

    3. Alternative Technologies

    4. Web Server Configuration

  2. Chapter 2 The Hypertext Transport Protocol

    1. URLs

    2. HTTP

    3. Browser Requests

    4. Server Responses

    5. Proxies

    6. Content Negotiation

    7. Summary

  3. Chapter 3 The Common Gateway Interface

    1. The CGI Environment

    2. Environment Variables

    3. CGI Output

    4. Examples

  4. Chapter 4 Forms and CGI

    1. Sending Data to the Server

    2. Form Tags

    3. Decoding Form Input

  5. Chapter 5 CGI.pm

    1. Overview

    2. Handling Input with CGI.pm

    3. Generating Output with CGI.pm

    4. Alternatives for Generating Output

    5. Handling Errors

  6. Chapter 6 HTML Templates

    1. Reasons for Using Templates

    2. Server Side Includes

    3. HTML::Template

    4. Embperl

    5. Mason

  7. Chapter 7 JavaScript

    1. Background

    2. Forms

    3. Data Exchange

    4. Bookmarklets

  8. Chapter 8 Security

    1. The Importance of Web Security

    2. Handling User Input

    3. Encryption

    4. Perl's Taint Mode

    5. Data Storage

    6. Summary

  9. Chapter 9 Sending Email

    1. Security

    2. Email Addresses

    3. Structure of Internet Email

    4. sendmail

    5. mailx and mail

    6. Perl Mailers

    7. procmail

  10. Chapter 10 Data Persistence

    1. Text Files

    2. DBM Files

    3. Introduction to SQL

    4. DBI

  11. Chapter 11 Maintaining State

    1. Query Strings and Extra Path Information

    2. Hidden Fields

    3. Client-Side Cookies

  12. Chapter 12 Searching the Web Server

    1. Searching One by One

    2. Searching One by One, Take Two

    3. Inverted Index Search

  13. Chapter 13 Creating Graphics on the Fly

    1. File Formats

    2. Outputting Image Data

    3. Generating PNGs with GD

    4. Additional GD Modules

    5. PerlMagick

  14. Chapter 14 Middleware and XML

    1. Communicating with Other Servers

    2. An Introduction to XML

    3. Document Type Definition

    4. Writing an XML Parser

    5. CGI Gateway to XML Middleware

  15. Chapter 15 Debugging CGI Applications

    1. Common Errors

    2. Perl Coding Techniques

    3. Debugging Tools

  16. Chapter 16 Guidelines for Better CGI Applications

    1. Architectural Guidelines

    2. Coding Guidelines

  17. Chapter 17 Efficiency and Optimization

    1. Basic Perl Tips, Top Ten

    2. FastCGI

    3. mod_perl

  1. Appendix A Works Cited and Further Reading

    1. References

    2. Additional Reading

    3. RFCs

    4. Other Specifications

    5. Project Home Pages

    6. Newsgroups

  2. Appendix B Perl Modules

    1. CPAN

    2. perldoc

  3. Colophon

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