Using Perl with "The Net"
In order to do effective web programming with perl, there
is a set of perl modules that will make life immeasurably
easier. The are:
- MD5
- URI
- Bundle::LWP (a.k.a. libwww-perl5)
- CGI
All of the modules can be found on your favorite CPAN mirror. You
can also use the CPAN module to install the modules for you. Just
run (preferably as root) perl -MCPAN -e shell or you can
also download
www-perl-install.pl
from my page which will install everything for you. The code was
taken almost directly from the CPAN man page. If you install the
modules by hand, be sure to install them in the order listed above
(particularly URI before libwww-perl and CGI or the latter
installs will fail.
Once you have these installed, you are well on your way to CGI
programming.
Bill Adams
Last modified: Wed Dec 23 04:39:32 CET 1998