This is the continuance of the classic perl CGI module, bundled with Perl until Perl 5.22. Development is continuing on p5-CGI and components of it are actively splitting to other modules. The older, everything-in-one-package module is still available in www/p5-CGI.pm. See also: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Alternatives CGI.pm is a stable, complete and mature solution for processing and preparing HTTP requests and responses. Major features including processing form submissions, file uploads, reading and writing cookies, query string generation and manipulation, and processing and preparing HTTP headers. Some HTML generation utilities are included as well. WWW: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI