• CGI serves web pages.
• LWP retrieves web pages.

With all due respect, please don't direct people to the CGI101 Web site. While the information generally seems to be correct, the Perl is simply awful and the author uses the standard broken method of parsing form data.

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}
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Right off the top of my head, I count six bugs (or limitations, depending upon one's point of view) in that code. Dangerous stuff to recommend :)

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.
Silence is Evil (feel free to copy and distribute widely - note copyright text)

      
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SV* sv_bless(SV* sv, HV* stash);

CGI seems to be holding back, just waiting for LWP to send it something else. Look out, LWP is getting out the big guns now! It's sending a powerful HTTPS request with a multi-part form upload! Oooh, denied by CGI's $POST_MAX setting!

This is truly a thrilling battle, watching these two great modules pound the $VERSION numbers out of each other! We could be here all night, waiting for one of them to crack.

:) Yet another case of "I only regret that I have but one vote to give".