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 | | CGI is often confused with Perl, which is a programming language, while CGI is an interface to the server from a particular program. | | | CGI is set of rules that describe how a Web Server communicates with another piece of software on the same machine, and how the other piece of software (the "CGI program") talks to the web server. | | | Usually a CGI program is a small program that takes data from a web server and does something with it, like putting the content of a form into an e-mail message, or turning the data into a database query. |
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| | Computer> Internet> Web> CGI [encyclopedia] |
| | A CGI program, on the other hand, is executed in real-time, so that it can output dynamic information - perhaps a weather reading, or the latest results from a database query. | | | Perl is well known as a language used for CGI, but one of the points of CGI is to be language neutral. | | | An example of a CGI program is the one implementing |
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