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CGI scripts

In this section we'll discuss one of the more popular uses of Perl - making CGI scripts for web pages. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and is an agreement amongst computers how they can handle submission of form data. Such scripts are used primarily with forms to get and process information sent from a client. Before doing this, though, we have to explore how communication is carried out over the web.

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