The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a
standard for external gateway programs to interface with information
servers such as HTTP servers. A plain HTML document that the Web
daemon retrieves is static, which means it exists in a constant
state: a text file that doesn't change. A CGI program, on the other
hand, is executed in real-time, so that it
can output dynamic information. (From the CGI reference
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html)
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CGI or Common Gateway Interface,
is a standard. Many programming interfaces are part of the same,
the most popular ones being Perl, Javascript, Java, Visual Basic,
etc. Sources of the subject heading are available under specific
programming languages.
