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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The appearance of the second edition of CGI Programming with Perl heralds the beginning of the neoclassical era of Web service. CGI--or common gateway interface--is the original back end for client-driven, dynamic Web-page service and deserves consideration as the Romulus of the Internet Empire. But, where first-edition author Gundavaram described the lonely Romulus laying the brick foundation of dynamic Web-page service in 1996, second-edition collaborators Guelich and Birznieks have pitched in to resurrect Romulus amid the crowded streets of modern Rome. Why bother? Surely four years have brought technological revolutions (Java, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion) that render CGI's original brick-by-brick approach as obsolete as, say, Roman mythology--or bricks and mortar. And yet not. It is an ambiguous blessing that the original CGI persists, adhering to the underside of Web service by the duct tape that is Perl. This point is not missed by Guelich, Gundavaram, and Birznieks, whose advocacy of CGI is both bolstered by the growing applications module base of Perl and tempered by their awareness of CGI's structural limitations. Both new and returning readers of CGI Programming with Perl should browse the last chapter first in order to appreciate the proposed solutions to CGI's greatest sin: its impractical slowness in a world of a million-hits-per-day Web service. The chapter describes CGI-compatible FastCGI and mod_perl technologies that circumvent the process-spawning slowness of the simple CGI. Advanced users might want to skip directly to O'Reilly's fine mod_perl tome, Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C, by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern. The authors' second pass at CGI pedagogy is a lucid, honest, and expanded account that develops functionality of dynamic Web pages in a rational progression--from HTML client-server and CGI syntax basics to general input/output, forms, e-mail, graphics, and simple database applications, including maintaining client state and data persistence under the otherwise stateless HTTP protocol. The authors offer synopses of cookies, JavaScripting, server security, and XML, all of which are described in detail in other books. Whether or not neoclassical CGI is fast enough for your purposes--perhaps for guarded intranets--bear in mind that CGI is the standard to which every other Web server has had to respond. The second edition of CGI Programming with Perl is still the best introduction to the classics. --Peter Leopold, Amazon.com Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good Grounding But Out Of DateThe 2nd, and current, edition was published in 2000 which is a lifetime ago in web development. It would have been nice to see mention of CSS and AJAX and less table designed web pages. I have dropped on star from my rating as I think O'Reilly should have updated it by now. However the book does provide an excellent overview of cgi and the examples appear to cover all aspects of using Perl/cgi for web design. Although there is no mention of AJAX, javascript is discussed with examples ... Read More Rating:  - Confusingly structured and writtenI'm new to perl and cgi. I found this book poorly structured and written compared to say 'Learning Perl' by Randal Schwartz. It does give you an overview of what can be done with cgi but how to specifically implement programming tasks is often vaguely or confusingly described. I found the out of print first edition by Gundavarum more help. It is available free on the O'Reilly web site. Rating:  - An excellent in depth introduction to CGI using PerlI have been programming for years but only recently got big time into CGI. I think this is an excellent book from which to gain your first in depth understanding of CGI and of how to approach the many different aspects of CGI programming using Perl. (Take a look at the index to see). I bought the book, read it cover to cover and use it. It does not set out to teach Perl and assumes that you know the language but you don't need to be a guru to understand the examples. If you want to build reliable Perl ... Read More Rating: - A good intro to the theory of CGI with PerlI found this book very useful in getting me up to speed writing simple scripts, and in adapting the scripts of others. The theory is very well explained, and the section on security a must. Since I have not copied the examples verbatim, the errors which others reported in the code had escaped me. Note, this book will not teach you Perl. Rating: - The list of errata is 12 pages long! Way too many mistakes.I bought this book hoping that I could learn CGI programming from it. I have already worked through learning Perl which was good & I have Programming Perl as a reference. I am now about half way through this book & there are so many errors in it that I have ended up wasting a lot of valuable time. The list of errata on O'Reilly's site for this book is 12 pages long & I have found several that aren't listed there yet. This book is not up to the usual O'Reilly standards. Save your ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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