Practical Programming in Tcl & Tk, Third Edition By Brent B. Welch
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Chapter 3. The Guestbook CGI Application
The cgi.tcl Package
The cgilib.tcl file included with this book just barely scratches the surface of things you might like to do in a CGI script. Don Libes has created a comprehensive package for CGI scripts known as cgi.tcl. You can find it on the web at
http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/
One of Don's goals in cgi.tcl was to eliminate the need to directly write any HTML markup at all. Instead, he has defined a whole suite of Tcl commands similar to the P and H2 procedures shown in this chapter that automatically emit the matching close tags. He also has support procedures to deal with browser cookies, page redirects, and other CGI features.
