CGI Tricks & Traps

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• CGI.pm TRICKS
  1. What is CGI.pm?
  2. Make HTML Beautiful
  3. Make HTML Concise
  4. Make Tables Bearable
  5. Setting & Retrieving CGI Parameters
  6. Sticky Form Fields (Stateful Pages)
  7. Customizable Pages
  8. Making Cookies
  9. Filtering Existing Files
  10. Filtering HTML files
  11. Smart Redirection
  12. File Uploads
  13. What is GD.pm?
  14. Making GIF Images
  15. Making Animated GIFs

• CGI.pm TRAPS
  1. My fields are stuck!
  2. CGI.pm ignores hidden()!
  3. My uploaded files are growing!
  4. How do I get the GET and the POST parameters!
  5. XXX doesn't work as advertised!