title: CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the World Wide Web, Second Edition
author: Jacqueline Hamilton
description: <I>CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the World Wide Web</I> is a concise presentation of the key elements of Perl CGI, which makes it perfect for programmers who are under the gun. If you need to get up to speed on text strings, for example, you can read that chapter and be a pro within about 10 minutes.
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  [CGI Programming on the World Wide Web](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cgi/)
  
  
  By Shishir Gundavaram; ISBN: 1-56592-168-2, 433 pages.
  
  
  First Edition, March 1996.
  
  
  **Table of Contents**
  
  
  [Preface](file:///C|/My Intranet/online-books_ora_mod-bin_books/online-
  books.ora.com/mod-bin/books.mod/webref/cgi/ch00_01.htm)
  
  
  [Chapter 1: _The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)_](index_split_000.html#2)
  
  
  [Chapter 2: _Input to the Common Gateway Interface_](index_split_000.html#19)
  
  
  [Chapter 3: _Output from the Common Gateway
  Interface_](index_split_000.html#42)
  
  
  [Chapter 4: _Forms and CGI_](index_split_000.html#58)
  
  
  [Chapter 5: _Server Side Includes_](index_split_000.html#89)
  
  
  [Chapter 6: _Hypermedia Documents_](index_split_000.html#108)
  
  
  [Chapter 7: _Advanced Form Applications_](index_split_000.html#142)
  
  
  [Chapter 8: _Multiple Form Interaction_](index_split_000.html#175)
  
  
  [Chapter 9: _Gateways, Databases, and Search/Index
  Utilities