What is a cgi (common gateway interface)?
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allows you to extend your virtual server. CGI allows you to support situations when you want to send information to the virtual server for more complicated processing. In general, web servers do not process information themselves but rather hand off the work to gateway programs. The CGI specification defines the mechanisms by which HTTP servers communicate with gateway programs. Therefore, you need to understand the HTTP protocol and the CGI specification to write server-side gateway programs and client HTML documents that use these programs. Since writing CGI programs is not easy, we provide a few simple cgi’s to our Domain-Name customers that can be installed into their cgi-bin directories, once activated. (See also above.
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allows you to extend your virtual server. CGI allows you to support situations when you want to send information to the virtual server for more complicated processing. In general, web servers do not process information themselves but rather hand off the work to gateway programs. The CGI specification defines the mechanisms by which HTTP servers communicate with gateway programs. Therefore, you need to understand the HTTP protocol and the CGI specification to write server-side gateway programs and client HTML documents that use these programs. Since writing CGI programs is not easy, we provide a few simple cgi’s to our Domain-Name customers that can be installed into their cgi-bin directories, once activated.
