Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) provides an interfacing between external applications with information servers. Unlike the “static” characteristic of a plain HTML file, CGI provides means for an HTML file to “dynamically” change the content via executable external (server-side) files.With CGI, the client can execute a program written in PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language), C++, C, FORTRAN, TCL, AppleScript, etc., from an HTML file containing an exec…
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