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authorSunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>2019-03-27 19:22:16 +0000
committerSunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>2019-03-27 19:22:16 +0000
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Update to 4.42
- Fix LICENSE - Add LICENSE_FILE - Update pkg-descr - Update WWW - Take maintainership Changes: https://metacpan.org/changes/distribution/CGI
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-This is the continuance of the classic perl CGI module, bundled with Perl until
-Perl 5.22. Development is continuing on p5-CGI and components of it are
-actively splitting to other modules.
-
-The older, everything-in-one-package module is still available in www/p5-CGI.pm.
-
-See also: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Alternatives
-
CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing
HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form
submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation
-and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML
-generation utilities are included as well.
+and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers.
+
+CGI.pm performs very well in a vanilla CGI.pm environment and also comes with
+built-in support for mod_perl and mod_perl2 as well as FastCGI.
+
+It has the benefit of having developed and refined over 20 years with input from
+dozens of contributors and being deployed on thousands of websites. CGI.pm was
+included in the perl distribution from perl v5.4 to v5.20, however is has now
+been removed from the perl core.
-WWW: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI
+WWW: https://metacpan.org/release/CGI