[4165] in java-interest
Re: What is CGI?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michaels@pallas.statenet.com)
Tue Dec 12 16:32:51 1995
From: michaels@pallas.statenet.com
To: grege@optimation.com.au (Greg Ewing)
Addressed-To: grege@optimation.com.au (Greg Ewing)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Dec 95 15:29:38 +1100."
<9512120429.AA07040@thredbo.optimation.com.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 95 11:53:00 PST
CGI stands fro common gateway interface. this really has nothing to do with
java. CGI is the way that all current web sites support server backend
processes. For instance when you enter data in a from and press "ok", the
data you entered is sent to a CGI program on the server to get processed.
Usually that are written in Perl or C. People are bringing it up here
because that want to use Java for CGI programs. To me this does not
make sense due to Java's architecture. Java is used to write true
client/server
throught the web. You really do not need CGI to do this.
Hope this helps.
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