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An introduction to the HTTP protocol used for the exchange of www documents. It covers the essential knowledge needed for the other articles in this section on web client programming.

This article is a complete tutorial showing how to create your own streaming web clients, that can be used to stream (play while downloading) multimedia files such as mp3.

This tutorial explains how to use the Apache::Registry Perl module to improve the performance of your CGI scripts, as well as how to implement SSIs and <Perl> sections with mod_perl.

This Part 5 of the Perl 101 series introduces you to subroutines and teaches you how to structure your code for maximum reusability. Also included: return values, my() and local() constructs, and a marriage proposal.

The part 3 of the Perl 101 series teaches you more about Perl's control structures - including the FOR and WHILE loops - and also introduces you to Perl's array variables.

Known as much for its confusing, often oddball, syntax as for its efficiency and speed, Perl has a mystique that very few languages can match. This first article in a new series gives novice and intermediate programmers an introduction to the basics of the language.

mod_perl is a terrific fusion of the Apache Web server and the Perl language that embeds a copy of the Perl interpreter inside Apache, allowing you to not only speed up existing CGI scripts but also extend your Web server in ways previously unavailable to most webmasters. This tutorial explains from how to install mod_perl to Databasing with Mod_perl.

This is a comprehensive tutorial on object-oriented programming in Perl. Some of main topics include: Creating a Class, Class Data, Aggregation, Metaclassical Tools, and more.

The first part in a new series that introduces Perl to people who haven't programmed before. Some of main topics covered include: Functions and Statements, Numbers, Strings and Quotes, Variables, Comments, Loops, and more.

This article focuses on setting up MySQL and understanding its various management complexities. Shows how to create a MySQL database and populate a table with data.

In this Part 10 of "The Perl You Need to Know" series, you will be shown how to work with Perl's list and hash data structures.

The author notes "This tutorial provides a problem-oriented introduction to Perl within the context of CGI. The approach is narrative. A problem is introduced and the tutorial then proceeds, step by step, to solve the problem. Perl concepts and features are introduced as they are needed to accomplish each step." This tutorial is divided into seven steps: Perl framework and mechanics; Hello, World; Hello, World, from CGI; Hello, World, from CGI, in HTML; Echo Environment Variables; Echo STDIN Variables; and Perl Library.

This tutorial provides a summary of basic Perl features, organized in categories. It consists of six major sections: Variables and their Related Operators, Control structures, Functions, Regular Expressions, Input/Output, and System Operators.

Tired of writing Perl code to parse form data? Take a leaf from the book of the experts and let CGI.pm do all the work for you. This article introduces you to CGI.pm's powerful page construction and form parsing capabilities, with simple examples of how you can use it to simplify your Perl development.

Perl OOP can sometimes be a little confusing, especially for the inexperienced newbie. The first of a two-part article, this tutorial attempts to simplify things with a light-hearted look at some basic OO concepts in Perl. Play nice, and you might even get your very own Easter bunny!

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a guestbook using a perl and a MySQL backend. This SQL backend application would be ideal for companies such as GuestWorld who run free public guestbooks.

This article explains how to validate the structure of your XML documents with Perl. It does so by combining the simplicity of Test.pm from the standard Perl distribution with the flexibility of XPath.

For those who don't want to get tied up with a relational database and all the supporting software needed, yet still need to store a dataset to disk for future use, this tutorial provides several Perl DBM, or database management, solutions which have much less overheard than DBI and are a quick way to store and use Perl data structures to and from disk.

In this Part 21 of "The Perl You Need To Know" series, it covers the Benchmark module � the handy Perl stopwatch that allows you to time, optimize, and slim down on code.

Creating an XML-RPC Web service with Perl is almost as easy as CGI scripting. This article will bring you up to speed on what XML-RPC is and how to use Perl's Frontier::RPC library to create simple clients and servers. Included are samples of XML-RPC conversation diagrams and datatypes.