[ale] Uploading to a web page

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

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> CGI is not the only server side technology, in fact it seems 
> pretty much dead as other technologies place a lesser load on 
> the server and are more secure and feature rich.

I think you are confusing CGI with something else. CGI is the 
defacto standard used to send data from a browser to a 
web server. It is independent of language. Programs that use 
the CGI protocol have been written in every language imaginable, 
including Perl, C, Java, scheme, you name it. Even "sh"! And yes, 
even server-side Javascript.

> All are in my opinion easier than Perl

Ah, now I see the problem. Remember, Perl is not CGI. CGI is not 
Perl. Perl happens to be an extremely popular language of choice 
for CGI applications, but other than that, there is no relation 
whatsoever. 

If you meant that perl is "pretty much dead" as a CGI language, 
this is just not true: the majority of the web's CGI scripts are 
using perl. If you use mod_perl it is just as fast, if not 
faster, than any other language out there.

Greg Sabino Mullane greg at turnstep.com
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