Chapter 3. Generating web pages with Perl

Table of Contents
In this chapter...
Your public_html directory
The CGI directory
The HTTP headers
HTML output
Running and debugging CGI programs
Quoting made easy
Environment variables
Chapter summary

In this chapter...

In this section, we will create a simple "Hello world" CGI program and run it, then extend upon that to integrate parts of Perl taught in previous modules. Alternative quoting mechanisms are briefly covered, and we also discuss debugging techniques for CGI programs.