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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 1997. Foils prepared 11 May 1997

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.


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

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1 Setting the Stage for CGI Programming:
HTTP, URL, CGI, MIME, HTTPD, and many other acronyms
too numerous to mention
2 In a Nutshell
3 Internet Documents: Drafts, Memos and Standards
4 Internet Documents - Examples
5 Internet E-Mail (RFC-822)
6 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME)
7 MIME - Extension Model
8 MIME - "Content-Type" Header Field
9 MIME - Base Content Types
10 MIME - Base Content Types, continued
11 MIME - Implementation Status
12 HTTP - Hypertext Transport Protocol
13 HTTPD - HTTP Daemon
14 URL - Uniform Resource Locator
15 HTTP - How does it work?
16 HTTP - GET Request Example
17 HTTP - Reply Example
18 HTTP - POST Request Example
19 Common Gateway Interface (CGI) - an introduction

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