CGI programming on the World Wide Web /
Shishir Gundavaram.
- 1st ed.
- Bonn ; Cambridge, : O'Reilly & Associates, 1996.
- xiv, 433 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- A Nutshell handbook .
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.
1565921682 9781565921689
CGI (Computer network protocol) Perl (Computer program language) Web servers--Computer programs.