What Is The Common Gateway Interface?

April 14th, 2006 · Posted in Web technology · 0 Comments

CGI – Common Gateway Interface – A set of rules that describe how a web server communicates with another piece of software on the same machine CGI programs are normally used in conjunction with databases and HTML forms to create pages such as input forms or surveys.

The CGI programs themselves are normally stored in a special folder on the server called the CGI-bin

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