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masa
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 Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 10:46 am Post subject: what is cgi |
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what is diffrence of cgi to other ones i saw some sites like counter.cgi or something like that and is it related or cgi-bin folder?
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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A very good definition from Dictionary.com:
| Quote: | A standard for running external
programs from a World-Wide Web HTTP server. CGI
specifies how to pass arguments to the executing program as
part of the HTTP request. It also defines a set of
environment variables. Commonly, the program will generate
some HTML which will be passed back to the browser but it
can also request URL redirection.
CGI allows the returned HTML (or other document type) to
depend in any arbitrary way on the request. The CGI program
can, for example, access information in a database and
format the results as HTML. A CGI program can be any program
which can accept command line arguments. Perl is a common
choice for writing CGI scripts. Some HTTP servers require
CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often
"/cgi-bin" but better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI
programs so they can be kept in the same directories as the
HTML files to which they are related. |
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hehe my fingers a sore so its hard to click!
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