Penn State

Web Conference 2004

Writing Perl/CGI Scripts for ITS/ASET Web services

Web Conference / Pre-Conference Tutorial Attendees - Be sure you fill out the survey feedback questionare: for the Preconference Tutorials (Mon) and/or for the Main Conference (Tue)

Also read the errata page listing the changes I made since the conference. (Last updated: Friday, 26-Dec-2008 21:29:10 EST)

Topics

What this session covers
The basic "What?"s - Perl, CGI, and server-side programming
Penn State ITS/ASET Web services - How are they unique? What is new and coming soon?
Your first CGI script - The basic formulae to give birth to a CGI script, baby steps, and greeting the world
Second CGI script - Passing data back to the server
A little more on Perl
HTTP dialogue explained
How parameters are passed
So what really is a CGI program? What must it do?
Introducing the POST method
STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR, The Environment and more - Summary of Input and Output for CGI programs
Fun stuff
- Reading & Writing data to files
- Intro to SQL and SQLite
- Web Access Control - HTTP Basic and Digest Authn, CGI passwords, Cookies and more
- HTTP redirects
- Advanced CGI techniques - "backticking" buggy scripts, telnetting to a server
- Security
Exercises

Reference and Recommended Reading

Penn State related documentation
- CGI Script Procedure - for installing scripts by other authors

Errata

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me - mailto:jcd@psu.edu

Content by: Jeff D'Angelo <jcd@psu.edu> © 2004

Last update on: Friday, 26-Dec-2008 16:50:44 EST