Common Gateway Interface
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Interface which offers a standard protocol for web servers to execute programs install
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- technology
- Subclass of
- communication protocol
- Image
- CGI common gateway interface.svg
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- derivative work
- FastCGI
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/cgi
- Commons category
- CGI
- described at URL
- www.w3.org/CGI
- facet of
- Internet
- media type
- application/x-httpd-cgi
- different from
- computer-generated imagery
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Encyclopedic overview
The official CGI logo from the spec announcement
In computing, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP or HTTPS user requests.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Common Gateway Interface” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.