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Title: What is CGI?
Post by: admin on January 09, 2007, 05:31:43 PM
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. In the beginning, CGI was used as an interface between scripts executed on the web server and user interaction. Modules were not directly built into the web server, and thus had to be executed somehow. This execution was done where executable programs were placed in a CGI-BIN directory, designating them separate from static pages.