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One of the methods that the web server uses to pass information to a cgi script is through environmental variables. These are created and assigned appropriate values within the environment that the server spawns for the cgi script. This page highlights some of the most commonly used ones, along with a brief description and notes on possible uses for them.

This article provides a short CGI program that can print every environment variable it knows.

This tutorial tackles one of the most common newbie questions, how to install your regular joe CGI Script.

This tutorial explains how to create documents which include other documents and various dynamically generated information, such as the current date, the file's last modification date, and the size or last modification of other files.

A comprehensive list of answers to some of the most commonly asked questions on CGI programming. It ranges from basic questions and techniques to trouble shooting and other CGI resource guide on the Web.

An introduction to sorting, and how to write your own sorting functions easily with perl. Includes some very common examples of sorts.

This CGI tutorial teaches you the basic skill of perl programming needed by all perl programmers. Topics include subroutines, 'if' statements, qq, error handling, debugging, and using forms.