Table of Contents:

• Components of the Web
• Universal Resource Locators
• Server-Client Interaction
• MIME types
  • Example: show environment
  • Example: show environment in a window
  • Sample: .mailcap file
  • Scripts
• How MIME types are determined
  • Sample: .htaccess file
  • Sample: .mime.types file
• CGI Scripts
  • Example: Hello World
  • Sample: .htaccess file
  • Sample: hello.cgi script
• Passing data to CGI scripts
  • Example: show environment
  • Example: show environment with passed data
  • Sample: server1.cgi
  • Sample: server2.cgi
• FORMs and INPUTs
• URLs generated by FORMs
  • Example: form with some buttons
  • Example: action buttons
  • Example: maple plot from a form
  • Sample: form.cgi
  • Sample: plot.cgi
• Maintaining data across sessions
• Warnings about CGI scripts
• Some useful URLs

• List of all CGI sample scripts