Common Gateway Interface

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard environment for web servers to interface with executable programs installed on the server that generate server-side dynamic web pages.

Description

Such programs are known as CGI scripts or simply CGIs

They are usually written in a scripting language, but can be written in any programming language.

See also

• Dynamic web page
• Perl
• Scripting language
• Server-side dynamic web page
• Programming language

External links

• Common Gateway Interface @ Wikipedia