Name of the class:  Perl WWW/CGI programming

Duration:  3 days

Labs:  about 50-60 % of the time

Prerequisite:  The class Introduction to Perl programming or equivalent Perl experience.

Target audience:  Webmasters, Web-programmers, System administrators

Goal:  To learn how to write WWW applications of varying complexity in Perl.

Course contents: 

• Web Application Architectures
• Web Server comparison: Apache/Netscape/Microsoft
• Web Server Configuration basics
• Web related protocols: HTTP/HTML/MIME/CGI
• CGI Security
• Programming HTML forms in Perl
• Generating HTML dynamically with Perl
• Using existing Perl modules (CGI.pm etc)
• Using cookies and hidden fields to maintain state
• Accessing SQL databases from Perl
• Web-client programming in Perl: robots etc.
• Application examples: sending mail, shopping carts
• Performance considerations: mod_perl, fastcgi etc
• Server push, client pull, graphics

Course material (in english): 

• Student workbook
• Labs/documentation in HTML format
• A Perl book. The book selection might change over time:
  • Programming Perl, (the "Camel book") or
  • Programming with CGI.pm

Lab environment:  Unix/Linux or Windows (XP/2000/NT/W98/W95)