CGI programming on the World Wide Web / Shishir Gundavaram.

Content
1.The common gateway interface (CGI
What is CGI
CGI applications
Some working CGI application
Internal workings of CGI
etc,

2. Input to the common gateway interface
Introduction
Using environment variables
Accessing form input
Extra path information.
Other Languages under UNIX
etc.

3. Output form common gateway interface
overview
CGI and response headers
Accept types and content types.
The content-length Header
Server redirection
etc.

4. Forms and CGI
HTM tags
Sending data to the server
Designing application using forms in perl.
Decoding forms in other language

5. Server side includes
Introduction
Configuration
Environment variable
Including boilerplates
etc.

6. Hypermedia documents.
Creating dynamic home pages
CGI examples with postscript
gd graphics library
CGI Examples with gnuplot
etc.

7. Advanced form application
Quest
Survey/ poll and pie graphs
Quiz/test form application.
Security


8. Multiple form interaction
Hidden fields
CGI side are sockets
Netscape persistent cookies


9. Gateway, databases and search/index utilities
UNIX manual page
Mail gateway
Relation database
etc.

10. Gateway to internet information servers
Overview
What are sockets
Socket 1/0 in perl
Socket library
Checking Hypertext (HTTP) Links
Achie
etc

11. Advanced and creative CGI applications
Animated clock
Game of concentration
Introduction to image maps
Calendar Manager
etc

12. Debugging and testing CGI applications
Common errors
Programming/ System errors
Environment variable
Logging and Simulation

Includes index: 423-433 p.