Re: freeware scripts (was Re: [MacPerl] learning UNIX concepts)

[Jason Arnold <ja0022@drake.edu>]

I have no problem getting the data from a web form.  To me that seems to be
the easiest part of the cgi.  I guess my question is what do you want your
script to do in particular when it gets the data.

>	Unfortunately, it doesn't speak to the REAL issue, IMO. The MOST
>important function of a CGI script is to process HTML Form Data! As a Web
>Developer, I can speak to the fact that a script written for any other
>purpose, with respect to Internet/Web applications, is secondary.
>	Many tasks can be done "by hand", manual calculator, or whatever.
>Processing Web-based form data has only two solutions that I know of:
>JavaScript or (PERL-based) CGI. ... and the JS solution isn't a viable
>answer, due to incompatibilities with older browsers - specifically IE3.
>	If anyone knows of other options, with respect to this issue, I
>know of a few hundred developers on the CyberStudio list that would LOVE to
>hear about it. Hell, we'd probably even PAY a few bucks for a decent, well
>coded script!  I know that I would - which is why I'm trying to learn PERL,
>BTW.
>
>	Just my $.02
>
>
>Patrick Beart



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