WWW authoring Creating HTML, CGI

WWW robots and proxies Automatic processing of HTTP requests

WWW Browsers User interface for accessing the WWW

Up to: World Wide Web - HTTP, HTML, standards, browsers, transfer utilities, servers, et al.

Ultra Monkey - Complete open source server farm solution for Linux. {(L)GPL}

FreeThreads - A continuation of the last GPL'd version of WWWThreads (wwwthreads.org) which is a bunch of CGI Perl scripts that provide access to message boards or forums via a web browser. {(L)GPL}

mod_perl-1.25 Embeds a Perl interpreter in the Apache server

modules for perl5, for use in writing CGI scripts. p5-CGI-2.76 Modules for perl5, for use in writing CGI scripts

p5-CGI_Lite-1.8 perl5 module to process and decode WWW form information.

WIRM - WIRM is a perl-based application server. Woohoo! {(L)GPL}

OaSys Analysis Suite - WWW logfile analysis and reporting suite {(L)GPL}

webworks-se-Log loganalyser - webworks-se-Log is a log analyser for web server logs. It features a plug-in architecture for new categories (i.e. things to look for) and is object-oriented written in perl. Click at Docs link for documentation. {(L)GPL}

Perl Web Server - A very simple to use and configure web server written in Perl. It aims to be as cross-platform as possible. The goal is to make a web server as easy to use as Roxen, as modular as Apache, and as powerful as Perl! {(L)GPL}

Aphid Apache Installer - Aphid provides a facility for bootstrapping SSL-enabled Apache web servers (mod_ssl) with an embedded Perl interpreter (mod_perl). Source is downloaded from the Internet, compiled, and the resulting system is installed in the directory you specify. {(L)GPL}

Apache Configuration Tool - A tool to administrate the Apache webserver {(L)GPL}

The Mod_Perl Rewriting Proxy - This is a lightweight proxy, written on Apache's Mod_Perl and designed for places where other proxies are unappliable or undesirable. {(L)GPL}

Qbanner - Qbanner is a Perl+Mysql Ad-Server (GIF, JPEG, PNG ads). Graphical,tabular hourly (daily,monthly) stats, cache busting. Help is needed to debugging,port to mod_perl other (transactional)Db, adding new media types, distribuited servers. {(L)GPL}

Soupermail Generic form to email handler {GPL}

acmemail acmemail is a single-user POP3 to Web gateway with full MIME support {GPL}

Apache::Session Session manager for web applications {Artistic}

camelserv - Camelserv aspires to be a commercial-quality web server that is 100% written in Perl. It is very easily extensible, and considering the fact that it is written in Perl, it will be pretty much platform-independent.

Other Applications and Utilities

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Apache - The Apache Web server is freely available, fast, and easy to install. With this module, you can natively execute Perl scripts. Every Web server can execute Perl scripts, of course -- but it requires starting up a fresh Perl interpreter every time [Perl] {oss}

p5-WWW-Search-2.10 a perl5 module for WWW searches

CGI - A quick and dirty (but stable, popular, and reliable) module for creating and processing CGI scripts. Used by thousands of people. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Lite - The CGI_Lite module handles and decodes CGI form data, of both the GET and POST variety. Inside the CGI directory. [Perl] {oss}

perl5 module for a HTTP server authentication class. p5-HTTPD-Tools-0.55 Perl5 module for a HTTP server authentication class

FCGI - Fast CGI, based on the FCGI module that comes with Open Market's FastCGI Developer's Kit. Similar to the CGI module. See www.fastcgi.com for details. Requires SFIO and Perl version 5.003_02 or later. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Imagemap - Lets you create "clickable images" on your web pages. You can define actions for rectangular, polygonal, and circular portions of your image, as well as individual points. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::modules - Set of modules for creating CGI scripts. Requires the URI::Unescape class, which is part of the libwww bundle, so you'll need that too. [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Response - A module for constructing responses to CGI requests. There's a "Simple Interface" which handles most common HTTP headers, and a "Full Interface" which handles everything else. Requires CGI::modules, which in turn requires the libwww bundle. Requir [Perl] {oss}

CGI::Out - A helper routine for CGI programs, CGI::Out buffers STDOUT until your script has completed. If an error occurs, a nice HTML error message will be generated instead of the drab "Server Error", or worse, nothing at all. It'll also send you e-mail whe [Perl] {oss}

HTTPD::Authen - Portable methods for authenticating users for your Web server. [Perl] {oss}

HTTPD::UserAdmin - Portable access to user databases for your Web server. [Perl] {oss}

HTTPD::GroupAdmin - Portable access to group databases for your Web server. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::MediaTypes - Guess the media type for a file or a URL. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

LWP::media.types - Not a module, just a list of the media types you'll often see in MIME headers (e.g. text/html, image/gif) and their likely file extensions (e.g. .html, .htm, .gif). [Perl] {oss}

Netscape::Server - Allows you to embed a Perl interpreter in a Netscape web server so you can use the Netscape API from Perl rather than C. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components

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