CGI scripts have a nasty habit of leaving warning messages in the error logs that are neither time stamped nor fully identified. Tracking down the script that caused the error is a pain. This fixes that. Replace the usual use Carp; with use CGI::Carp And the standard warn(), die (), croak(), confess() and carp() calls will automagically be replaced with functions that write out nicely time-stamped messages to the HTTP server error log.

CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log

CGI::CIPP is a Perl module which enables you to use CIPP on every CGI capable webserver. It is based on a central wrapper script, which does all the preprocessing. It executes the generated Perl code directly afterwards.

CGI::Cookie is an interface to Netscape (HTTP/1.1) cookies, an innovation that allows Web servers to store persistent information on the browser's side of the connection. Although CGI::Cookie is intended to be used in conjunction with CGI.pm (and is in fact used by it internally), you can use this module independently.

CGI::Debug will catch (almost) all compilation and runtime errors and warnings and will display them in the browser.

Implement trusted stateful CGI Form Data using cryptography.

This is a little module made for CGI scripting. It encodes the parameters to be passed to a CGI. It does nothing more, so it's much smaller and loads more quickly.

CGI::Extratags adds several useful methods to the CGI class.

CGI::Fast is a subclass of the CGI object created by CGI.pm. It is specialized to work well with the Open Market FastCGI standard, which greatly speeds up CGI scripts by turning them into persistently running server processes. Scripts that perform time-consuming initialization processes, such as loading large modules or opening persistent database connections, will see large performance improvements.

Perl extension for managing templates, and performing variable interpolation.