Common Gateway Interface

Common Gateway Interface definition - hacker
Permits interactivity between a host operating system and a client through the Internet by using the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The CGI Scripts allow someone visiting a Website to run a program on a machine to perform a specified task. The interaction between Web page and program is specified in the CGI definition. As long as the executed programs follow this standard, it does not matter what language the program was written in.

See Also: HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol); Internet.

Virtualville Public Library. Introduction to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). [Online, 2004.] Virtualville Public Library. http://www.virtualville.com/library/ cgi.html#overview.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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