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COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

Specialty Definition: COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

Domain	Definition
Computing	Common Gateway Interface (CGI) A standard for running external programs from a World-Wide Web HTTP server. CGI specifies how to pass arguments to the executing program as part of the HTTP request. It also defines a set of environment variables. Commonly, the program will generate some HTML which will be passed back to the browser but it can also request URL redirection. CGI allows the returned HTML (or other document type) to depend in any arbitrary way on the request. The CGI program can, for example, access information in a database and format the results as HTML. A CGI program can be any program which can accept command line arguments. Perl is a common choice for writing CGI scripts. Some HTTP servers require CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often "/cgi-bin" but better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI programs so they can be kept in the same directories as the HTML files to which they are related. Whenever the server receives a CGI execution request it creates a new process to run the external program. If the process fails to terminate for some reason, or if requests are received faster than the server can respond to them, the server may become swamped with processes. In order to improve performance, Netscape devised NSAPI and Microsoft developed the ISAPI standard which allow CGI-like tasks to run as part of the main server process, thus avoiding the overhead of creating a new process to handle each CGI invocation. Current version: 1.1. NCSA (http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi). Stars (http://www.stars.com/Seminars/CGI/). (1997-01-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Post & Telecom	The open standard for connecting external applications with WWW servers. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

Specialty definitions using "COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE": CGI, cgi-bin. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
common gateway interface	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

Language		Translations for "COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		共同閘�"介面 (CGI). (various references)

Danish		common gateway interface, CGI. (various references)

Dutch		common gateway interface, CGI. (various references)

Finnish		common gateway interface, CGI. (various references)

French		passerelle CGI. (various references)

Greek		CGI, κοινή πυλαία διεπαφή. (various references)

Pig Latin		ommoncay atewaygay interfaceay

Portuguese		CGI, interface de porta de conversão comum, Interface de Passagem Comum. (various references)

Spanish		CGI (International Geological Congress), interfaz común de pasarela, interface común de pasarela, interface común de acceso. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE

Misspellings
	"COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commun gateway interface. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations

5. Bibliography

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