Oh Great Monkish Ones, Whose Wisdom is Likened to That of a Very Wise One,

I'm sure that this has to be one of the most common questions among those new to perl. Perhaps someone could write it up into a step-by-step howto? (I'll do it myself if I figure out how... right now, a google search turned up much info, but nothing exactly like what I needed)

What I'm looking to do seems relatively simple: I want to have a page on the internet with a form. When this form is filled out and the submit button is pressed, the information will be appended to a file on the server. Server is not owned by me, but I have full access to one directory on it.

My questions:

  1. What's the quick-and-dirty way to get this done, with Perl?
  2. What web server must be running? Is this OS-specific? Any quirks?
  3. What security risk does this pose, and how can that be avoided? Assume a win9x or NT system. Or assume a linux system. But please tell me which you mean :-)
  4. What's a good way of organizing the database for both human readability and data munging?
I thank you for sharing your wisdom.

- Anonymous Cowar- er... Monk.

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