What is CGI ?

[Ruby17]

CGI

Quite simply, CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. That’s a fancy term for something we all know as Application Programming Interface. So, CGI is the API for the web server.

The web server, of course, is the software that sends web pages to web browsers. Technically, web browsers should be called web clients, and people who use them should be called web browsers. But no need to get technical here.

[weblover50]

I know what is CGI but i don't know how to operate CGI.

[dvdreplication]

What does it mean by CGI? Can some one here explain it a bit?

[Dianka]

A Web customer program (such as a web browser) can accessibility information from many different web servers, such as Gopher, FTP, NNTP (Usenet) or HTTP. The HTTP server was developed particularly for the Web, and utilizes a method (system of messages) that facilitates delivering records from the server to a web browser, and that also ***istance delivering complicated information from the consumer back to the server. There are several HTTP techniques for doing this (in HTTP, techniques is a technological phrase for the way in which information are sent between a customer web browser and server).

[Russell]

CGI is a programing interface for web server.