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In my last column I covered how to dispatch based onmime type. That’s only part of the dispatching story. The other twomajor pieces of information to use when dispatching are the HTTPmethod and the URI. Let’s look at the HTTP method first. The first and easiest way to handle the HTTP method is to handle different methods within the same CGI application. When a request comes in, the HTTP method is passed in via the REQUEST_METHOD environment variable. We can just look up the  
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