CGI Programming in C and Perl

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CGI: Internet Programming in C++ and C

Format: Paperback
Author: Mark Felton
ReleaseDate: 28 March, 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Rating:

Need a tip that the book doesn't help with.
Try this concept. If you've bought the book and using winnt/2000(VStudio), it may help to know that standard cin will timeout.
#include
#include
void main()
{
char buff[1000];
int con_len = atoi(getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH"));
cout<<"Content-type: text/html\n\n";
(con_len)?cin. get(buff,con_len),cout< }
The author of this book should have researched more using Windows. Ok book if you're using server soft designed for UNIX ie:Apache, but only really deserves 2-3 stars.
It could have been written better.

Until the better one come out, this is one of the best
Recently, I have to write web programming (called CGI programs), and I don't want to learn a new language like Perl or Tcl. I am one of C++ programmers who had been writting C++ codes for years.. . So, I wondered around everywhere finding any book that could give me any idea about how to write CGI programs in C/C++, and luckily, I found this book.

While not perfect (from my experience with over 20 C++ books, none is perfect), this book does what it should. Although a lot of codes won't compile without some modification (compiler depends. . . I compiled them using g++ on IRIX platform, check yours). Anyway, I found it challenging to find bugs in his code, since that helped my understanding of several things (but without bugs is better anyway :-).

Apart from that problems, there are also other drawback points. The most important one is, the author's e-mail address! I was trying to send some mails to ask him some question. However, it seems that the address is wrong. . (although I checked that in the book's homepage!). Well, if anyone know his correct e-mail address, would you please send me that information?

However, I do agree with some reviewers about the price of this book. It should be much cheaper, when consider about the size of the book, and (it is paperback cover. . ). Anyway, since books for CGI programming in C/C++ are rare, it might be considerable fine. . . .

And why I still gave this book 5 stars? Well, as I said, from my opinion this is one of the best for CGI programming "without" Perl & Tcl book. At least until the better one come out.

Covers the fundamentals of CGI with C/C++ well...
. .. but, for one thing, for the price, this book should come with a CD with all the code. . . it's a huge pain to type all that is given. Also, the C++ classes (of most concern to me) seem to be overly complex, theres a whole load of member functions to replace the amersands in a query string with newlines, and a bunch of other stuff, where a couple of strtok(); functions would have done the job.

The main strength of this book is that it teaches you the mechanics of how a compiled C/C++ program for CGI works. The string parsing doesn't take much ingenuity either, you just have to know the format.