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* http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt | * http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875.txt | ||
* http://www.w3.org/CGI/ | * http://www.w3.org/CGI/ | ||
* [http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol1_1/tpj0101-0005.html PERL Journal Article intro to CGI programming] | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19970605143114/http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/CGI___Common_Gateway_Interface/ Yahoo Listing of CGI scripts circa 1997 (via wayback)] | * [https://web.archive.org/web/19970605143114/http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/CGI___Common_Gateway_Interface/ Yahoo Listing of CGI scripts circa 1997 (via wayback)] | ||
[http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/Python_CGI_checklist Python CGI Checklist] | [http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/Python_CGI_checklist Python CGI Checklist] | ||
Revision as of 12:36, 11 February 2014
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface and basically means any kind of program that runs on a webserver. Typically a CGI produces an HTML page as output, but may also produce an image (say a PNG or JPEG), or any other kind of file a webserver might serve.
The PERL scripting language was a crucial part of early Web (CGI) programming.
A PHP is a kind of CGI (though typically may have a more "intimate" connection and different setup on a server than other more traditional CGI languages like PERL or Python). For a very particular task or maximum performance, a CGI might even be a binary executable written in C and compiled on the server.