CGI

Overview

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple protocol for passing an HTTP request from a web server to a standalone program, and returning the output to the web browser. Basically, a CGI program is called with the parameters of the request passed in either in the environment (GET) or via $stdin (POST), and everything it prints to $stdout is returned to the client-

This file holds the CGI class. This class provides functionality for retrieving HTTP request parameters, managing cookies, and generating HTML output.

The file CGI::Session provides session management functionality; see that class for more details.

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