Going Deeper

As I mentioned at the beginning of this lesson, I could easily go on for pages and pages and chapters and chapters about all the different aspects of CGI. Documenting all of CGI.pm itself would give us a much larger lesson than I've got here. There are a few other features of CGI.pm I'd like to mention, however. All of these features are documented in the documentation for CGI.pm (perldoc CGI will show it to you), as well as in the Web page at http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/.

If you need further details about CGI itself, feel free to visit the Web pages or to read the book I mentioned at the beginning of this lesson. The Usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi can also provide assistance in getting your CGI scripts ...

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