Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P406. This topic is presented on public course Using Perl on the Web

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Using Perl on the Web - training course - CGI, mod-Perl, and other standards. Sessions, cookies, content management, etc. Using Perl on the Web - CGI, mod-Perl, and other standards. Sessions, cookies, content management, etc. This advanced course takes the Perl programmer ... http://www.wellho.net/course/pwfull.html  [course]

Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite If you're using Apache mod_rewrite to redirect a series of URLs to a single script, did you know that you can pass values entered onto a form via the ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1009_Pas ... write.html  [short article]

Uploading and Downloading files - changing names (Perl and PHP) When you are uploading a file to a server via http (in Perl or PHP), where is the file saved, and what is it called? And when you download a file, where ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2321_Upl ... -PHP-.html  [short article]

Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl) For the Clock exercise that I mentioned in my last entry, I need to update the page once a minute. Exactly once a minute. At the start of the minute. ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1187_Upd ... Perl-.html  [short article]

Making all your .html files run a Perl script div class= introsubheads A RECIPE FOR DYNAMIC WEBSITES WITH PERL BR /div or how to turn all .html URLs in a directory into dynamic pages via CGI ... http://www.wellho.net/solutions/perl-mak ... cript.html  [longer article]

Simple but rugged form handling demo There are some weeks (OK - MOST weeks!) where I have great fun during training course writing examples in front of the class that help with their application ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/641_Simp ... -demo.html  [short article]

Download a file off the server #!/bin/perl -- -*-perl-*- # Download a file read (STDIN,$buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); @pairs = split(/&/,$buffer); foreach $entry (@pairs) ... http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=p406/down.pl  [code sample]

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The extra facilities of CGI, things that you'll need from time to time but probably won't use on a daily basis. Learn how to upload and download files, how to email from the server, how to recognise which browser your client is using, and how to return a page that automatically moves on to a second response page a few seconds later.

This topic is presented on public course Using Perl on the Web

down.pl	Download a file off the server
mailer.pl	Emailing and working out the browser type
nph-clock.pl	Multipart and updating CGI document
up.cgi	CGI script to receive uploaded file
up.html	Form for uploading a file
upfile.html	Uploading a file (live demo)
upsend.cgi	CGI script to receive and display uploaded file
useredit.pl	Edit a file all on one page!
utils.pm	Utilities for CGI
winmailer.pl	emailing from Perl on a Windows box