Accessing perl script through browser

asha_mail has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Accessing perl script through browser by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 18, 2011 at 08:33 UTC
Perl scripts do not run from your browser: your browser contacts a webserver and the server runs the (perl)script. Is that what you want to do? All HTML (any version) is just text which your script (running inside the server) sends out on STDOUT. As Perl is very good in manipulating text, it is best suited to do this. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]
Re: Accessing perl script through browser by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 18, 2011 at 08:26 UTC
See CGI and/or Plack or Mojolicious. Also see the CGI Programming section in Tutorials.	[reply]
Re: Accessing perl script through browser by TJPride (Pilgrim) on Dec 18, 2011 at 21:45 UTC
If you want your code (or at least the CPU-intensive bits) to run browser-side, you should probably learn Javascript, and depending on what you're doing, maybe some other things such as manipulating SVG.	[reply]
Re: Accessing perl script through browser by Anonymous Monk on Dec 20, 2011 at 08:33 UTC
First I would learn about the internet to get an overall picture of how the internet works, how tcp/ip, sockets, html, all fit together Then I would, as Corion suggests, use one of cgi-app / mojo / dancer / catalyst to start writing perl web apps	[reply]