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Tutorial Exercises

Basic Perl CGI

1. Push the Perl example mailform1.pl from this lecture onto your web servers.
   • How do you easily get copies of this code?
   • Try both UNIX and Win32 platforms
   • Don't forget the file permissions
2. Modify your copy of mailform1.pl to send the form data to http://staffweb.cms.gre.ac.uk/~mk05/cgi-bin/form.pl
3. Do mailform1.pl and form.pl produce valid XHTML?
   • Check it using the W3C validation service.
4. Try copying form.pl into your cgi-bin.
   • More on how this works in the next installment of Perl

Note:
It is important that you are familiar with running Perl before the next Perl lecture

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