a CGI script don't need to concern what the server is, so I believe there must be a standard way to do that.
Indeed there is a standard way to do that: The Common Gateway Interface, usually referred to by its initials, "C.G.I.".

If I understand the question correctly, you're writing a web server and want to be able to call scripts via CGI, but you don't know what the calling side of the interface is supposed to do. If my understanding is correct, then you should probably take a look at the CGI spec, aka RFC 3875 - The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1.

In reply to Re: How a web server sending data to a CGI perl script ? by dsheroh
in thread How a web server sending data to a CGI perl script ? by exilepanda

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