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| Acknowledgments | |
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| World Wide Web Documents | |
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| The Universe of Web Documents | |
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| References | |
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| The CGI Standard | |
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| The Need for a Standard | |
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| The Goals of CGI | |
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| CGI and the HyperText Transfer Protocol | |
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| CGI Environment Variables | |
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| CGI Standard Output | |
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| CGI Standard Input | |
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| References | |
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| Obtaining CGI Access | |
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| Purchasing CGI Access on a Commercial Server | |
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| Common Rules for Installing CGI Programs | |
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| Creating Your Own Internet Site | |
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| Configuring Web Servers to Recognize CGI Programs | |
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| References | |
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| Some Simple CGI Examples | |
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| Hello: Sending HTML to the Browser | |
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| Leveraging Existing Programs: cuptime | |
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| Virtual Directory Spaces: Taking Advantage of PATH_INFO | |
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| What Are Environment Variables? | |
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| Using PATH_INFO: Creating a Virtual Document Space | |
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| The World Birthday Web | |
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| Browsing Birthdays | |
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| When PATH_INFO Isn't Enough | |
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| References | |
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| Identifying the User: More CGI Environment Variables | |
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| More Environment Variables | |
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| REMOTE_IDENT: The Pitfalls of User Identification | |
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| AUTH_TYPE and REMOTE_USER: Identifying the User on Your Own Terms | |
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| Applications of REMOTE_USER | |
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| References | |
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| Handling User Input: Interacting with Forms | |
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| Creating Forms | |
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| Processing Form Input | |
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| Accepting Comments | |
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| Existing Comment-form and Guestbook Packages | |
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| References | |
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| Using cgic and cgi-lib: Complete CGI Solutions | |
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| The cgic Library: A Better API for CGI | |
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| The World Birthday Web | |
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| Using cgic | |
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| cgi-lib: Simplifying CGI for Perl Programmers | |
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| The World Birthday Web | |
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| Using cgi-lib | |
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| Sending E-mail from CGI Programs | |
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| Alternatives to Using CGI | |
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| Security Risks of Sending E-mail with /bin/mail | |
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| Sending E-mail with sendmail | |
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| Identifying the Sender: How Much Can Be Done? | |
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| A Complete E-mail Form: Accepting Bug Reports | |
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| Existing CGI E-mail Packages | |
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| References | |
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| Multimedia: Generating Images in Dynamic Documents | |
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| Pointing to Existing Images in a CGI-generated HTML Page | |
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| Generating Dynamic Images: Mime Types and Multimedia | |
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| A CGI Program That Delivers an Image Instead of HTML | |
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| Off-the-shelf Ways to Generate Images | |
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| Using the gd Graphics Library | |
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| Drawing Graphs on the Fly | |
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| References | |
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| Advanced Forms: Using All the Gadgets | |
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| New Tricks with Text Elements | |
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| A Complete Example | |
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| Advanced CGI and HTML Features | |
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| A Problem: Sending Updated Information to the User | |
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| Client Pull: Web Pages That Update Themselves | |
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| Server Push: Pushing the Limitations | |
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| Making Decisions Based on Browser Type | |
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| Implementing Imagemaps | |
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| Redirection: Forwarding Requests to Another URL | |
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| Using capture: Debugging CGI Programs in Real Debuggers | |
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| References | |
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| The Solar System Simulator: Pushing the Limitations of CGI | |
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| Is CGI the Right Way to Do This? | |
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| Designing the SSS: Overcoming CGI Limitations | |
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| Perl Notes | |
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| The SSS in C: nph-sss.c | |
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| The SSS in Perl: nph-sss | |
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| The Security Problem | |
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| The Design of WWWWS | |
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| Simulating Stock Prices in C: simtrade.c | |
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| Simulating Stock Prices in Perl: simtrade | |
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| Installing and Using simtrade | |
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| The trade Program: Interacting with the User | |
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| What's Next: CGI and Beyond | |
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| For Some Tasks, CGI is Overkill | |
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| Improved APIs: Faster Replacements for CGI | |
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| The Fundamental Limitation of CGI | |
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| Addressing CGI Limitations: Web Browser Programming Tools | |
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| Why CGI Isn't Going Away Any Time Soon | |
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| References | |
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| CGI Environment Variables | |
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| Internet Media Content Types | |
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| cgic Reference Manual | |
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| gd Reference Manual | |
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| CD Contents and Other Sources. 0201422190T04062001 | |