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Abstract of Introduction to CGI Programming

From Introduction to CGI Programming ECS400 Spring 97 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *
1 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.
2 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
3 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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