Fellow Monks,

Having never written perl for a WWW environment I am bewildered by the range of modules available for this task. So far all I have been able to settle on is CGI::Simple

cmon toaster, details!


OK, so I'm investigating a replacement for our antiquated ftp transfer system, work in progress data is placed on an ftp site for clients to DL and (hopefully) approve. Presently we just provide links via email such as ftp://yourname@ftp.mydomain.com

I would like to try a web based system that

  • Presents a login screen to the user
  • Validates username/password and sets a cookie
  • Presents an html representation of the users available data
    Linked to the URLs of these files


    • Whilst I realise this is fairly simple, fellow monks will perhaps already be familiar w/ my highly shady use of <tags> here at PM - so looking for a module to handle this is desirable.


    To paraphrase , What should web newbies use to generate their HTML


    many thanks , toaster.
    HERE document!, doccy doccy doccy, HEEERE document.

    In reply to Simple HTML Generation: Please Advise by submersible_toaster

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