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The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a method used by webservers to run external programs (known as CGI scripts), most often to generate web content dynamically. Whenever a web page queries a database, or a user submits a form, a CGI script is usually called upon to do the work.
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© 2004 James Lee, Simon Cozens, Peter Wainwright
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Lee, J., Cozens, S., Wainwright, P. (2004). Introduction to CGI. In: Beginning Perl. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0665-1_14
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