I agree with separating super-duper HTML production from CGI but it would be useful to have some basic stuff in there for quick printing out something. Maybe freeze existing HTML functionality in CGI.pm and that's it. Forcing templates on people is not the right approach although templates helped my productivity enormously.

Otherwise I agree with the poster. ALTHOUGH I dont have much of commercial experience deploying CGI.pm based apps and bearing the responsibility for security etc. Neither have I built an app and then found that CGI.pm has changed so much that my app is not working anymore and I have to re-write it. I would not like it much either, but that's how the business process in the world is right now: make obsolete and re-write.

Can anyone elaborate on any security risks posed by CGI.pm and if these are solved with alternatives? I kept reading that CGI.pm is insecure and alternatives is the way to go in the modern era ... but can anyone substantiate these claims?

Any other points to compare CGI.pm with alternatives?

In reply to Re: Review of CGI::Alternatives by bliako
in thread Review of CGI::Alternatives by Anonymous Monk

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