It is ambiguous blessing that the original CGI remains, holding on to the Web service by the duct tape of Perl. This was not missed by Guelich, Gundavaram, and Birznieks, that advocacy is well supported by the CGI application Perl module base growth and tempered by their awareness of the structural limitations of CGI. Both new and returning readers of CGI Programming with Perl should browse the last chapter first to appreciate the proposed solutions to CGI's biggest sin: the world of practical delay hits per-day Web services-million. Advanced users may want to jump directly to the ledger mod_perl fine O'Reilly, Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern. pass both authors' accounts at CGI pedagogy is a lucid, honest, and expanded that to develop the functionality of dynamic web pages in the rational development - from HTML client-server and CGI syntax basics for general input / output, forms, e-mail, graphics, and simple database applications, including maintaining client state and data persistence under the HTTP protocol stated citizenship. The authors offer synopses of cookies, JavaScripting, security servers, and XML, which are all described in detail in other books. Whether or not neoclassical CGI is fast enough for your purposes - perhaps for guarded intranets - in mind that CGI is a standard that every other Web server that must be answered.