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| Preface | |
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| Getting Your Tools in Order | |
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| Open Source Versus Proprietary Software | |
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| Evaluating a Hosting Provider | |
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| Web Hosting Alternatives | |
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| Getting Started with SSH/Telnet | |
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| Meet the Unix Shell | |
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| Network Troubleshooting | |
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| A Suitable Text Editor | |
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| Getting Started with Perl | |
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| Finding Perl on Your System | |
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| Creating the "Hello, world!" Script | |
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| The Dot Slash Thing | |
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| Unix File Permissions | |
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| Running (and Debugging) the Script | |
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| Perl Documentation | |
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| Perl Variables | |
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| A Bit More About Quoting | |
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| "Hello, world!" as a CGI Script | |
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| Running a Form-to-Email Gateway | |
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| Checking for CGI.pm | |
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| Creating the HTML Form | |
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| The [left angle bracket]FORM[right angle bracket] Tag's ACTION Attribute | |
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| The mail_form.cgi Script | |
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| Warnings via Perl's-w Switch | |
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| The Configuration Section | |
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| Invoking CGI.pm | |
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| foreach Loops | |
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| if Statements | |
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| Filehandles and Piped Output | |
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| die Statements | |
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| Outputting the Message | |
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| Testing the Script | |
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| Power Editing with Perl | |
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| Being Careful | |
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| Renaming Files | |
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| Modifying HREF Attributes | |
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| Writing the Modified Files Back to Disk | |
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| Parsing Text Files | |
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| The "Dirty Data" Problem | |
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| Required Features | |
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| Obtaining the Data | |
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| Parsing the Data | |
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| Outputting Sample Data | |
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| Making the Script Smarter | |
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| Parsing the Category File | |
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| Testing the Script Again | |
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| Generating HTML | |
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| The Modified make_exhibit.plx Script | |
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| Changes to andparse_exhibitor | |
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| Adding Categories to the Company Listings | |
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| Creating Directories | |
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| Generating the HTML Pages | |
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| Generating the Top-level Page | |
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| Regular Expressions Demystified | |
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| Delimiters | |
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| Trailing Modifiers | |
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| The Search Pattern | |
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| Taking It for a Spin | |
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| Thinking Like a Computer | |
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| Parsing Web Access Logs | |
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| Log File Structure | |
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| Converting IP Addresses | |
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| The Log-Analysis Script | |
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| Different Log File Formats | |
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| Storing the Data | |
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| The "Visit" Data Structure | |
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| Date Arithmetic | |
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| Date/Time Conversions | |
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| Using the Time::Local Module | |
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| Caching Date Conversions | |
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| Scoping via Anonymous Blocks | |
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| Using a BEGIN Block | |
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| Generating a Web Access Report | |
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| The andnew_visit and andadd_to_visit Subroutines | |
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| Generating the Report | |
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| Showing the Details of Each Visit | |
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| Reporting the Most Popular Pages | |
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| Fancier Sorting | |
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| Mailing the Report | |
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| Using cron | |
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| Link Checking | |
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| Maintaining Links | |
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| Finding Files with File::Find | |
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| Looking for Links | |
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| Extracting | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Using CPAN | |
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| Checking Remote Links | |
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| A Proper Link Checker | |
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| Running a CGI Guestbook | |
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| The Guestbook Script | |
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| Taint Mode | |
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| Guestbook Preliminaries | |
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| Untainting with Backreferences | |
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| File Locking | |
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| Guestbook File Permissions | |
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| Running a CGI Search Tool | |
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| Downloading and Compiling SWISH-E | |
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| Indexing with SWISH-E | |
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| Running SWISH-E from the Command Line | |
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| Running SWISH-E via a CGI Script | |
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| Using HTML Templates | |
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| Using Templates | |
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| Reading Fillings Back In | |
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| Rewriting an Entire Site | |
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| Generating Links | |
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| The Docbase Concept | |
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| The CyberFair Site's Architecture | |
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| The Script's Data Structure | |
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| Using Data::Dumper | |
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| Creating Anonymous Hashes and Arrays | |
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| Automatically Generating Links | |
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| Inserting the Links | |
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| Writing Perl Modules | |
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| A Simple Module Template | |
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| Installing the Module | |
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| The Cyberfair::Page Module | |
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| Adding Pages via CGI Script | |
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| Why Add Pages with a CGI Script? | |
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| A Script for Creating HTML Documents | |
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| Controlling a Multistage CGI Script | |
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| Using Parameterized Links | |
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| Building a Form | |
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| Posting Pages from the CGI Script | |
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| Running External Commands with system and Backticks | |
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| Race Conditions | |
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| File Locking | |
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| Adding Link Checking | |
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| Monitoring Search Engine Positioning | |
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| Installing WWW::Search | |
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| A Single-Search Results Tool | |
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| A Multisearch Results Tool | |
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| The map Function | |
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| Keeping Track of Users | |
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| Stateless Transactions | |
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| Identifying Individual Users | |
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| Basic Authentication | |
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| Automating User Registration | |
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| Storing Data on the Server | |
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| The Register Script | |
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| The Verification Script | |
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| Storing Data in DBM Files | |
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| Data Storage Options | |
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| The tie Function | |
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| A DBM Example Script | |
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| Blocking Versus Nonblocking Behavior | |
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| Storing Multilevel Data in DBM Files | |
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| An MLDBM-Using Registration Script | |
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| An MLDBM-Using Verification Script | |
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| Where to Go Next | |
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| Unix System Administration | |
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| Programming | |
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| Apache Server Administration and mod_perl | |
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| Relational Databases | |
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| Advocacy | |
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| Index | |