Chapter 6. Serving Dynamic Content with CGI
This hour's lesson covers the configuration of Apache to allow execution of CGI scripts. CGI is a simple and well-understood protocol for generating dynamic content.
In this hour, you will learn
Common Gateway Interface
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is a standard protocol used by Web servers to communicate with external programs. The Web server provides all the necessary information about the request to the external program, which processes it and returns a response. The response is then transmitted back to the client.
CGI Protocol
The creation of the CGI protocol can ...
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