CGI How-To

by Selena Sol, Stephen Asbury, Jason Mathews

Book Overview

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is the connection betweeen the Web browser and custom program, allowing a dynamic interaction between the user and the Web page. This guide is written in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157169028X
• ISBN13: 9781571690289
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Waite Group Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent applications examples

This book starts off with a bang, showing the reader how to transfer client data and decode it at the server. CGI cripts are built up in a step-by-step method easily comprehended by a beginning Perl user (me) and in most cases are translated into the equivalent convolutions of C; the comparison of the two sets of code make the utility of Perl dramatically apparent. "CGI How-To" is an effective practical companion to Larry Wall's "Perl Programming", which is complete but often theoretical in nature.

Very good reference manual

A very good book for beginners and anvanced CGI programmers. However I would have liked all examples to include C code as well as PERL

CGI How-To empowers the reader with real CGI solutions.

CGI How-To: The Definitive CGI Scripting Problem-Solver empowers you with the ability to solve your CGI maladies. With support for Windows NT scripts, this book is a wonderful resource for your bookshelf. If you author Web resources this book will assist you in becoming more advanced. If it is not on your shelf, it will be soon. Try it out. Bo