[TAG] More spam than content?

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Ben Okopnik wrote:

>There are Certain People - some of whom have written books purporting to
>teach Perl - who believe that parsing (possibly) HTML-escaped data from
>URL query strings should be done by hand.  Fortunately (?), the code
>examples in every case I've seen are purely awful, and will fail in a
>number of obvious cases; this will hopefully convince people to look
>around for the real thing (i.e., one of several CGI.pm's methods such as
>"param()".)
>  
>
Well, the tutorials I remember seem to have disappeared (though I'm sure 
one of the sneaky buggers will jump out at me from web.archive.org one 
of these days).