New modules released for CGI::Application

[CGI::Application has certainly outgrown its beginnings in the early world of CGI scripting.  Jason Crome reports recent modules created for this powerful framework from the world. -- Andy]

Dan Horne recently created CGI::Application::Plugin::RequireSSL, an easy way to add additional security to any web application..  CAP::RequireSSL forces the usage of SSL in CGI::Application-derived web applications in one of two ways: by raising an error when an application is accessed without SSL protection, or it can automatically redirect the browser to the same spot in the application, but over HTTPS rather than HTTP.

George Hartzell recently contributed Test::WWW::Mechanize::CGIApp to the Perl community.  TWM::CGIApp is a subclass of Test::WWW::Mechanize that makes it easy to instantiate and test CGI::Application-based webapps.

And finally, Mark Stosberg has helped fill a void in the CGI::Application development toolset by releasing two related pieces of infrastructure to the project:

• CGI::Application::Dispatch::Server provides a simple Perl-based web server for fast, lightweight development of CGI::Application-based webapps.  It can cleanly and easily dispatch requests to the appropriate web app during the development process, without the need for Apache, mod_rewrite, or regular expressions.
  
• Test::WWW::Selenium::CGIApp makes it easy to develop and test offline by eliminating  the need for Apache during the development cycle.

Find out more via the CGI::Application home page and wiki.