Fast Perl Module Documentation

The documentation of every Perl module installed on your server is available on the server. Once set up, it may be faster to get the documentation right from your server than to do a search on the Internet.

Put this script on your server:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
if($ENV{QUERY_STRING}) { print `perldoc $ENV{QUERY_STRING}`; }
else { print 'Usage: script.cgi?ModuleName'; }
# end of script

Bookmark the script.

When you need documentation for a module, run the script. Append "?" and the module's name to the script's URL. Example: http://example.com/cgi-bin/docs.cgi?strict

You'll get a printable page of documentation.

Will Bontrager