What are the Web servers that can be accessed by CI-Link ?
CGI: All servers supporting the CGI norm. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is a communication standard between Web servers and the oldest page dynamization mechanism, which is the most used and least efficient to a certain extent, but also the most reliable. To answer each dynamic Web page, the Web server starts a new process and communicates with it through the CGI norm. The loading time of the process is the element which explains the lack of efficiency when there are many pages to be generated. The fact that the page is built in an independent process is the reason for its large reliability: the operation of the Web application can never interfere with the operation of the Web server. Servers that support CGIs: Apache, IIS, Netscape Enterprise, Netscape FastTrack, etc… Apache modules: This method is more efficient and consists in integrating the Web pages construction module within the Apache Web server. Of course it only works on Apache servers. The page dynamization m