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RE: What is CGI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Pearson (Starwave))
Tue Dec 12 14:15:11 1995
From: "Tim Pearson (Starwave)" <TimPE@starwave.com>
To: java-interest <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 95 09:38:00 PST
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is the mechanism for communication between
your gateway and your web server. When a user enters text on a form or in
response to a <ISINDEX> query, the web browser sends the input to your httpd
server. The httpd server accepts the input, starts up the gateway and hands
the input to the gateway via the CGI. The user's input is passed to the
gateway either via environment variables (called the GET method) or using
standard input (called the POST method). The gateway then parses the input
and processes it. It may generate HTML output, which is returned to the
httpd server to pass to the client, or it may save data in a file or
database or send email to someone or it could return the URL of another
file.
Tim Pearson
timpe@starwave.com
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From: daemon
To: java-interest
Subject: What is CGI?
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 1995 3:29PM
Hi there,
Excuse my ignorance but it seems that every 20th posting refers
to CGI programs. No one at my company is familiar with the term,
so I'm sure that I would not be the only person interested in a
brief explanation.
GREG
grege@optimation.com.au
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