Mark Dickinsons Tutorials

Writing CGI applications using shell scripts

OK, first off I know its not terrible secure, but there are times when you want to create a quick prototype test page (or even application) quickly, and everyone knows shell scripting; not eveybody knows PERL or PHP.

There a a lot of books on how to write CGI based applications using PERL, even many for PHP. But what if you don't want to learn PERL or PHP.
This mini-book shows you how to write web applications using nothing but unix shell scripting; including processing form data and managing cookies; if you are running Apache (or a derivitive such as the IBM http server) on a unix server.

The tutorial on Writing CGI Applications using Shell Scripts is free to download. The tutorial covers the server side processing, it is not intended to (nor does it cover at all) how to write web pages for data input; it is not an HTML tutorial.