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Paperback: 451 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (29 Jun 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1565924193
ISBN-13: 978-1565924192
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.8 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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The appearance of the second edition of CGI Programming with Perl heralds the beginning of the neoclassical era of Web service. CGI--or common gateway interface--is the original back end for client-driven, dynamic Web-page service and deserves consideration as the Romulus of the Internet Empire. But, where first-edition author Gundavaram described the lonely Romulus laying the brick foundation of dynamic Web-page service in 1996, second-edition collaborators Guelich and Birznieks have pitched in to resurrect Romulus amid the crowded streets of modern Rome. Why bother? Surely four years have brought technological revolutions (Java, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion) that render CGI's original brick-by-brick approach as obsolete as, say, Roman mythology--or bricks and mortar.

And yet not. It is an ambiguous blessing that the original CGI persists, adhering to the underside of Web service by the duct tape that is Perl. This point is not missed by Guelich, Gundavaram, and Birznieks, whose advocacy of CGI is both bolstered by the growing applications module base of Perl and tempered by their awareness of CGI's structural limitations. Both new and returning readers of CGI Programming with Perl should browse the last chapter first in order to appreciate the proposed solutions to CGI's greatest sin: its impractical slowness in a world of a million-hits-per-day Web service. The chapter describes CGI-compatible FastCGI and mod_perl technologies that circumvent the process-spawning slowness of the simple CGI. Advanced users might want to skip directly to O'Reilly's fine mod_perl tome, Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern.

The authors' second pass at CGI pedagogy is a lucid, honest, and expanded account that develops functionality of dynamic Web pages in a rational progression--from HTML client-server and CGI syntax basics to general input/output, forms, e-mail, graphics, and simple database applications, including maintaining client state and data persistence under the otherwise stateless HTTP protocol. The authors offer synopses of cookies, JavaScripting, server security, and XML, all of which are described in detail in other books.

Whether or not neoclassical CGI is fast enough for your purposes--perhaps for guarded intranets--bear in mind that CGI is the standard to which every other Web server has had to respond. The second edition of CGI Programming with Perl is still the best introduction to the classics. --Peter Leopold, Amazon.com

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Provides an explanation of CGI for those who want to provide their own Web servers. The text features Perl 5 techniques and shows how to use two popular Perl modules, CGI.pm and CGI_lite. It also covers speed-up techniques, such as FastCGI and mod_perl, and material on searching and indexing, security, generating graphics through ImageMagick, database access through DBI, Apache configuration, and combining CGI with JavaScript.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent in depth introduction to CGI using Perl, 22 Sep 2001

By	J. J. Guzy "julius paintings" (Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been programming for years but only recently got big time into CGI. I think this is an excellent book from which to gain your first in depth understanding of CGI and of how to approach the many different aspects of CGI programming using Perl. (Take a look at the index to see). I bought the book, read it cover to cover and use it. It does not set out to teach Perl and assumes that you know the language but you don't need to be a guru to understand the examples. If you want to build reliable Perl programs that automate page generation, handle form data, implement shopping carts, manipulate databases and automatically send e-mails then this book will get you off to a good start.

P.S. I have seen some complaints about the number of errata. These have not bothered me in the slightest. Just get the errata pages from O'Reilly and print them out.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good intro to the theory of CGI with Perl, 29 May 2001

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I found this book very useful in getting me up to speed writing simple scripts, and in adapting the scripts of others. The theory is very well explained, and the section on security a must. Since I have not copied the examples verbatim, the errors which others reported in the code had escaped me. Note, this book will not teach you Perl.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent approach to CGI, 14 Oct 2000

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"CGI Programming With Perl" contains sufficient elementary information in the first three chapters to ensure that the reader in conversant with the CGI and aware of its advantages and disadvantages. The fun starts with chapter four when the reader is introduced to practical problems and methods of solving them. Rather than adopting the example lead approach of so many programming books, Geulich et al concentrate on providing the facts the reader needs to be able to solve real problems. This approach is excellent and makes the book a pleasure to read - there is no need to wade through interminable examples trying to discover the facts.

This book is a great place for the would be CGI programmer to start.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Grounding But Out Of Date
The 2nd, and current, edition was published in 2000 which is a lifetime ago in web development. It would have been nice to see mention of CSS and AJAX and less table designed web... Read more

Published 18 months ago by M. Wildey

2.0 out of 5 stars Confusingly structured and written
I'm new to perl and cgi. I found this book poorly structured and written compared to say 'Learning Perl' by Randal Schwartz. Read more

Published on 18 Jan 2007 by M. Sharpe

2.0 out of 5 stars The list of errata is 12 pages long! Way too many mistakes.
I bought this book hoping that I could learn CGI programming from it. I have already worked through learning Perl which was good & I have Programming Perl as a reference. Read more

Published on 12 April 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars 186 errata says it all
I bought this book as a Perl/CGI beginner, trusting the authority of two authors highly regarded within the Perl community. Read more

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