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p5-CGI-4.71

handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses

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Description

CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. CGI.pm performs very well in a vanilla CGI.pm environment and also comes with built-in support for mod_perl and mod_perl2 as well as FastCGI. It has the benefit of having developed and refined over 20 years with input from dozens of contributors and being deployed on thousands of websites. CGI.pm was included in the perl distribution from perl v5.4 to v5.20, however is has now been removed from the perl core...

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Ports path
www/p5-CGI
Package architecture
*
Maintainer
Andrew Hewus Fresh <afresh1@openbsd.org>
Categories
www, perl5
Available flavors
None listed

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