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Lesson 5: Introduction to CGI programming

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Walk through the process of invoking a CGI from an HTML form. Topics include:

 

 

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Lesson 5: Introduction to CGIs

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This exercise is primarily focused on using some entry data validation. We have supplied two files to help you do this: "validationRoutines.js" and "checkValsModel.txt".

 

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