Cgi-lib.pl

Jul 20, 2023

De facto standard library for creating CGI in perl

The cgi-lib.pl library makes CGI scripting in Perl easy enough for anyone to process forms and create dynamic Web content. The library has the following features

  • Extremely simple to learn and easy to use
  • Designed for operation under Perl5 and Perl4
  • Very efficient
  • Compatibility with all CGI interactions, including File Upload
  • Convenient utility functions
  • Compatible with Perl5 security features such as taint, warnings, command line options -Tw and use strict;
  • Debugging facilities
  • Good starting point for migration to more sophisticated libraries


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