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Title : The WWW Common Gateway Interface: Version 1.2
Author(s) : D. Robinson, K. Coar
Filename : draft-rfced-info-coar-00.txt
Pages : 21
Date : 13-Feb-98
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple interface for running
external programs, software or gateways under an information server in
a platform-independent manner. Currently, the supported information
servers are HTTP servers.
The interface has been in use by the World-Wide Web since 1993. This
specification defines the interface known as 'CGI/1.2', which is an
extension of the 'CGI/1.1' interface developed and documented at the
U.S. National Centre for Supercomputing Applications [NCSA-CGI]. This
document also defines the use of the CGI/1.2 interface on the Unix(R)
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