[4158] in java-interest
Re: What is CGI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terence Chr Haddock)
Tue Dec 12 14:33:27 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:34:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Terence Chr Haddock <haddock@UDel.Edu>
To: Greg Ewing <grege@optimation.com.au>
cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9512120429.AA07040@thredbo.optimation.com.au>
On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.
Ok, a CGI program refers to an object on a web site which is
actually a script or program on the remote machine. When you post to a
WWW site using a form, for instance, the data you posted will be sent to
a CGI program on the remote machine to be processed. The CGI program will
then output whatever the result of the post is, in HTML form usually. The
big interest here for CGI program is that someone realized recently that
a Java program could be a CGI too, and while that's possible, without
using J2C or a similar utility, it would be very slow, and much less
efficient than using C, or a script. However, I believe Netscape is
adding Java to their servers too. If I'm not wrong on this, then we could
really use Java directly for CGI programs...
- Terence C Haddock (haddock@udel.edu)
> GREG
>
> grege@optimation.com.au
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