You are to develop a CGI program that allows users to specify preferences about how documents from your site should look. The general idea is to provide the user with a form that will specify some preferences that are translated in to HTML style settings. When the user requests a document from your site you make sure that style settings in the document match the user preferences (you dynamically create the style settings).
Your system should support at least 4 different user preferences, in the demo mentioned below I support the font, size, color and background - feel free to support whatever you want as long as you support at least 4 different settings).
Users should not need to login, the style settings can be stored in cookies (so you don't need to worry about who the users are). It is expected that the files on your site will all be accessed through some CGI program (remember Exercise 13?)
There is a (minimal) demo system running at: http://monte.cs.rpi.edu/~hollingd/eiw-hw3/, please take a look at the demo to make sure you understand what is expected, contact Dave if you have questions. Your system not not need to look like mine, it just needs to support the idea of having user preferences effect how documents look.
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