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DEFINITION
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for connecting an application program to a Web server. Data from a form filled out by a user on a Web page is passed to a CGI application, which can then send dynamically generated Web content back to the user's browser.
FTER all these years, is there any future on the Web for CGI the venerable
Common Gateway Interface?
When first developed a decade ago, the World Wide Web was designed for displaying documents.
But almost from the start, Web site developers wanted a way to send data from a user's browser to a Web server - for example, a user's name and password, or input for a search.
CGI offers a standardized way of providing that capability. When a user types data into a Web page form, the contents of the form are sent back...