A CGI script could be a shell script, a compiled program written in
C/C++/PASCAL (I even have a
client whose CGI programs were developed in FORTRAN), PERL, PHP, EXPECT,
TCL. Basically
any program that can run on your WEB server (without going in details).
CGI scripts,need not contain:
Content-type: text/plain
{newline}
{newline}
However, before you can display any output on the user's browser, the
above text must be to printed.
So, the answer to your question is: a PERL program is just one form of a
CGI script. If an output is required on a browser (i.e., inform a user
of the outcome of a query, say), then you need to print out
Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
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