With this technique visitors will be able to download a file from your site but they never will find the URL information of this file. Perfect solution for pay sites.

Instructions and screen-shots showing how to configure a Windows IIS server to run CGI scripts and how to customize CGI scripts to work on a Windows IIS server. Also includes information on setting up the SMTP mail service that is part of IIS for those scripts that send e-mails.

A step-by-step guide on how to set up and use CGI scripts on Web sites. Also includes a introduction to the Perl programming language and SSI (Server Side Includes).

CGI environment variables are the way of getting information from the web server. Here is the list with the description of each variable set.

These tutorials are written primarily for the UNIX environment. Because Perl works on any platform and the HTTP and HTML specifications can work on any platform, you can apply what you learn from these tutorials to non-UNIX operation systems. (Learnthat)

Fed up with hosts that won't give you the access you need to run your scripts faster? This tutorial discusses a workaround to your troubles called SpeedyCGI. (Webreference)

Colin introduces the essentials of Perl, then shows how Perl scripts can be made to work with a Web page. (Webmonkey)

Speed up your CGI scripts and integrate them with your Web server using mod_perl. (Webmonkey)

CGI can add a lot of functionality to your site, but who wants to learn all that code? Tim explains the twin glories of theft and modification. (Webmonkey)