ITSS WebDev Guide
3 Advanced topics :
CGI scripts
Public CGI scripts
ITSS has developed a number of CGI scripts that are publicly available for use by any department, organization, or individual with a web page at UMD.
NOTE: If you are intending to gather sensitive information such as credit card or social security numbers, do not use these CGI scripts. Those types of transactions should be done with a secured web form; see E-commerce information for details.
The list below provides links to information on how to use each CGI.
Email data from a web form
- Generic Mail
- This CGI will email data from a web form to a specified recipient. You can also specify required fields and customize the format of the resulting email.
- Generic Mail Plus
- This CGI is similar to Generic Mail but will also write out the form data to a file after sending the email.
Count the hits on your web page
- Counter
- This CGI will count all of the hits to your web page.
- counter
- This CGI will count only the non-UMD hits to your web page.
Add a search box to your web page
- Search
- You can easily add a search box to your web pages and even restrict it to just your area if you want to.
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