Beginning Perl Web development; from novice to professional.1590595319 Beginning Perl Web development; from novice to professional. Suehring, Steve. Apress 2006 353 pages $39.99 Paperback QA76.73 Taking a broad approach that ranges from simple common gateway interface Simple Common Gateway Interface (SCGI) — a protocol for applications to interface with HTTP servers, an alternative to the CGI protocol. It is similar to FastCGI but is designed to be easier to implement. (CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. ) development to monitoring Internet servers, interfacing with email, and serve and consume RSS feeds, this guidebook and quick reference starts from the basics and works up to advanced features. It covers the CGI module, databases and Perl, and system interaction, then moves to Internet interaction with LWP (Library for World Wide Web in Perl) A suite of class libraries and software modules for the Perl programming language that is used to automate Web pages. LWP is commonly used to parse data from HTML pages. and Net::Tools starting with LWP modules, then describes XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. with SOAP-based services, Perl and RSS, and XML parsing. Material on performance enhancement with mod_perl includes Apache, that on web templates includes Mason, and an appendix provides Perl basics such as types of data, operators and variables. Technology architect Suehring offers plenty of examples and sample code and handy summaries for quick review with chapters. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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