close() Instance Public methods Store session data on the server and close the session storage. For some session storage types, this is a no-op.

delete() Instance Public methods Delete the session from storage. Also closes the storage. Note that the session's data is not automatically deleted upon the session expiring.

update() Instance Public methods Store session data on the server. For some session storage types, this is a no-op.

accept_charset() Class Public methods Return the accept character set for all new CGI instances.

accept_charset=(accept_charset) Class Public methods Set the accept character set for all new CGI instances.

escape(string) Class Public methods URL-encode a string. url_encoded_string = CGI::escape("'Stop!' said Fred") # => "%27Stop%21%27+said+Fred"

escapeElement(string, *elements) Class Public methods Escape only the tags of certain HTML elements in string. Takes an element or elements or array of elements. Each element is specified by the name of the element, without angle brackets. This matches both the start and the end tag of that element. The attribute list of the open tag will also be escaped (for instance, the double-quotes surrounding attribute values). print CGI::escapeElement('<BR><A HREF="url"></A&g

escapeHTML(string) Class Public methods Escape special characters in HTML, namely &"<> CGI::escapeHTML('Usage: foo "bar" <baz>') # => "Usage: foo &quot;bar&quot; &lt;baz&gt;"

escape_element(str) Class Public methods Synonym for ::escapeElement

escape_html(str) Class Public methods Synonym for ::escapeHTML