Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P408. 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]

Automated Browsing in Perl I'm reminded on today's Perl course just how powerful some of the modules are, and how much you can do in so little code. LWP::UserAgent turns your Perl ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2402_Aut ... -Perl.html  [short article]

Using LWP to write Web Clients As well as running server side scripts (through CGI, modPerl or ASP) and many uses independent of networks, Perl can be used to write server processes, ... http://www.wellho.net/solutions/perl-usi ... ients.html  [longer article]

Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions During courses, questions arise. "I'll get back to that" could make people feel that I'm brushing something off ... except that I explain, early on, ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/975_Answ ... tions.html  [short article]

Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module "If you think 'surely someone has done this before', you're probably right ... and in Perl, you'll find the resource you need available as a module on ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2229_Do- ... odule.html  [short article]

Automating access to a page obscured behind a holding page Question: "I have a web page that I visit which sends me an initial response to say that it's working on the results, and then the results appear a few ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2416_Aut ... -page.html  [short article]

Using LWP::Simple to find all links from a web page #!/usr/bin/perl use LWP::Simple; $site = "http://www.wellho.net"; # Sample (simplified code!) to reduce all URLs to a full, standard format sub canonicalise ... http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=p408/page_checker  [code sample]

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You're not the first person to write a CGI script in Perl. If you want to use standard modules from the CPAN, or supplied with Perl itself, there are plenty out there and we introduce you to some of them in this training module.

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

cc2	Use LWP UserAgent to check and see if a remote site has changed
cgi1.pl	Simple demo of CGI.pm
cgilite.pl	Using CGI_Lite.pm - simple example
cgis.pl	Using CGI.pm as a structured code
cookie.pl	Setting, reading and deleting cookies
ecbgrab.pl	Grabbing a network resource through LWP UserAgent
goodlinks	Validate links from a page (LWP)
grab2	A first example - grabbing a web page via LWP
page_checker	Using LWP::Simple to find all links from a web page