Re^4: making dynamic web pages

That is a common misunderstanding.

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple interface for running external programs, software or gateways under an information server in a platform-independent manner. Currently, the supported information servers are HTTP servers.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875

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Re^5: making dynamic web pages by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 21, 2009 at 21:32 UTC
I am gonna give up on this "legalese" and end by quoting Lincoln Stein: "The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a standard for allowing external programs to interface with servers such as HTTP servers, database servers, e-mail servers, and so on.". This is the way that web things talk to other web things.	[reply]
Re^6: making dynamic web pages by Anonymous Monk on Dec 22, 2009 at 00:24 UTC
I am gonna give up on this "legalese" and end by quoting Lincoln Stein: "The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a standard for allowing external programs to interface with servers such as HTTP servers, database servers, e-mail servers, and so on.". Have you read that quote? Because that is the exact thing I had quoted for you.	[reply]