CGI is sometimes referred to as Perl,
which is basically the same.
CGI refers to the Common Gateway Interface.
Open source CGI scripting programming language. Written
in 1987; Still one of the most popular web programming languages
mostly due to its powerful text-manipulation facilities.
A CGI is a program that translates data from a web server
and then displays that data on a web page or in an email.
CGI involves the transfer of data between a server and a
CGI program (called a script). This allows HTML pages to
interact with other programming applications. These scripts
make web pages interactive.
CGI scripts can drive Page counters, forms, guest books,
random text/images and other features. Some servers have
pre-installed/pre-defined CGI scripts, meaning that the
scripts are already installed on the server for you to use
on your site. Some servers permit user-defined or custom
CGI scripts, which means the site owner creates his/her
own CGI script and runs this custom made script on the web
site.
