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CGI - Scripting

CGI (or Common Gateway Interface) is a simple protocol that is used to communicate between your html form and your program. For instance you may decide to display a counter to show how many visitors your page has received, or you may want to provide a guestbook for your users to signin and leave a message. This is where CGI's come in.
What a CGI does:
1. Read the users input (and puts it into readable format/form for the recipient)
2. Do what you want to with the data (message boards, search engines, electronic postcards)
3. Return a HTML response to the user. (returns to the web visitor in a readable, logical format)
Almost any programming language can be used to write a cgi script. Including Perl, C, and so on. But you do need to know how to program to write CGI scripts. These days there are an endless array of cgi programming references on the internet.

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