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I'm new to CGI, what does CGI mean? It's not Perl right?

Jan 31st, 2002 17:18
Philip Olson,

First off, CGI does not mean Perl but Perl can run as CGI.  In summary,
CGI is defined as:
  The Common Gateway Interface is a standard for interfacing external
  applications with information servers, such as HTTP or Web servers.
Basic CGI information can be seen here:
  http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
The Google CGI directory listing:
  http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Internet/CGI/
Note: The acronym CGI has other means too, see:
  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?CGI