If you're going to post to the list, get it right first time round or
prepare to be corrected by others on the list. No good complaining that
people are nitpicking your posts if there are fundamental errors in them.
IMHO anyway ;)
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 11 July 2001 10:15
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is there an alternative to CGI ???
At 01:14 11.07.2001 -0800, Michael Fowler wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:28:46AM +0200, Aaron Craig wrote:
> > You may be confusing your terms here. CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is
a
> > general term that is used to describe the various methods used to
> > communicate between a host computer and a client through a network.
There
> > are many languages that can be used to handle this communication, such
as
> > Perl and even C++ (does anyone do that anymore?). However, if you're
> > talking internet, you're talking CGI, no matter what you use to run your
> > communication.
>
>Yow, you're confusing your terms. CGI is not a general term to describe
>internet communications, it's a very specific protocol between a web server
>and an application, an application executed by the web server for handling
a
>request.
"very specific protocol between a web server and an application" ie
internet communications
Sorry, I forgot to check my Internet Nitpickers Dictionary before posting.
:)
Aaron Craig
Programming
iSoftitler.com
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