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Setting the Stage for CGI Programming: HTTP, URL, CGI, MIME, HTTPD and many other acronyms

Given by Nancy J. McCracken at ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course on Spring Semester 1996. Foils prepared 2 June 1996
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MIME stands for Multipart Internet Mail Extensions and is the developing standard for the contents of all messages passed over the Internet.
HTTP is Hypertext Transport Protocol and is the protocol that provides the basis of the World Wide Web: transmitting multimedia documents across the Internet. HTTPD is the daemon running the HTTP Web server.
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and is the universal addressing scheme for all documents (multimedia) on the WWW.
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.
References:
  • HTML and CGI Unleashed, John December and Mark GInsburg, chapters 19 and 20.
  • Innumerable web documents.
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