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Introduction to CGI Programming

Given by Nancy J. McCracken at ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course on Spring Semester 1996. Foils prepared 2 June 1996
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CGI is the Common Gateway Interface and is the scheme to interface other programs and systems to the HTTP Web protocol, using the same data protocols as the HTTP clients and servers.
In this section, we will cover
  • passing information from the web page to the CGI script
  • processing information on the server and returning formatted web pages back to the web client
  • an example using Perl as the scripting language
  • brief descriptions of other CGI capabilities
References:
  • HTML and CGI Unleashed, John December and Mark GInsburg, chapters 19, 20 and 21, Sams.net Publishing.
  • CGI Programming on the World Wide Web, Gundavaram, O'Reilly & Associates.
  • The CGI Book, William Weinman, New Riders Publishing.
  • Web documents.
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