Editing CGI.pm (section)

{{Short description|Perl module for web applications}}
{{primary sources|date=September 2011}}
{{one source |date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox software
| name = CGI.pm
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| author = [[Lincoln Stein]]
| developer = Lee Johnson
| released = 
| latest release version = 4.21
| latest release date = 2015-06-22
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| platform = [[Perl]]
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| genre = [[Perl module]] for [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]]
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| website = {{URL|https://metacpan.org/release/CGI}}
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'''CGI.pm''' is a large and once widely used [[Perl module]] for [[Computer programming|programming]] [[Common Gateway Interface]] (CGI) [[WWW|web]] applications, providing a consistent [[Application programming interface|API]] for receiving and processing user input. There are also functions for producing [[HTML]] or [[XHTML]] output, but these are now unmaintained and are to be avoided.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://metacpan.org/dist/CGI/view/lib/CGI.pod|title=CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses - metacpan.org|website=metacpan.org}}</ref> CGI.pm was a core Perl module but has been removed as of v5.22 of Perl.<ref name="auto"/> The module was written by [[Lincoln Stein]] and is now maintained by Lee Johnson.