Can Search Engines Index/Crawl perl and cgi?

[firefly2442]

I'm thinking about creating a site that is entirely cgi and perl. This way I can provide dynamic content for the visitors and it would be easier to manage. However, can search engines that index/crawl websites. Googlebot, etc. index something like that?

-Thank You.

[andreasfriedrich]

SEs spider HTML documents by following links contained within those documents, some index a lot of other document types as well.

As long as your perl script returns valid HTML documents there should be no problem since SEs do not care what kind of technology produced the pages they get served.

As to the URIs you should use see this post [webmasterworld.com] which contains furter references.

Andreas