What "CGI"? Perl, C, et cetera...?


CGI (common gateway interface) means the server runs a program to generate a web page. Instead of printing out the file at the given URL, it tries to run it as a program (shell script, C executable, whatever), and whatever it prints out when you run it is the resulting page.

Yeeees...I know. I was asking CGI told me nothing, I was wanting to know what language, Rob. -.-


And where do I need to look.


This is probably all documented somewhere, but the above should get you started.

I was asking the location of whatever mailing archive thing he had. -.-


Now if you're dealing with an existing CGI program, it could be a nasty mess written in cobol for all I know. CGI just says what the inputs and outputs are, it doesn't say what language the program is written in...

Heh.



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