Hello bartender1382 and welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of perl!

> .. I should have stated CGI

..and many of us could have answered: we wait for you in XXI century :)

No seriously and without any offending intent, you can glance CGI to understand some basic concepts but then (or from the beginning) look at something contemporary like Dancer2 or Mojolicious

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In reply to Re^3: Can my perl scripts get the IP address that called the script? by Discipulus
in thread Can my perl scripts get the IP address that called the script? by bartender1382

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