Teach Yourself CGI Programming with Perl in a Week by Eric Herrman

This book starts where most CGI tutorials leave off—just before you get into the really cool stuff! Fear not. If you are looking to take your Internet knowledge to the next level, you’ve made the right purchase. This book provides useful tips and hands-on examples for developing your own applications within the CGI programming environment using the Perl language. You get a complete understanding of the important CGI concepts, such as HTTP request/response headers, status codes, CGI/URI data encoding and decoding, and Server Side Include commands. You learn application development through examples in every chapter and with a complete application when you design an on-line catalog.