[ale] perl CGI

[Armsby-Jr, John W]

Go by Barnes & Noble or Borders book store and get Web Client Programming
with Perl (O'Reilley).  It is short and sweet and will tell you what you
need to do.

John


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> From: 	David S. Jackson[SMTP:dsj at dsj.net]
> Reply To: 	David S. Jackson
> Sent: 	Thursday, July 22, 1999 2:18 PM
> To: 	ale at ale.org
> Subject: 	[ale] perl CGI
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if you can make a cgi perl script which interactively
> feeds information to another website and calculates postage, then
> returns that value to the function.  Does such a thing already exist?
> 
> Example:  You order a CD from x.org; a cgi-script computes the weight
> of your order and which package/envelope will be used; the cgi-script
> enters those values in a forms-based website (a la www.canadapost.ca)
> and uses the return value to compute the total cost of the order for
> the x.org customer.
> 
> TIA!
> --
> David S. Jackson                           http://www.dsj.net
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