Interaction on the
World Wide Web with
the Common Gateway Interface
What is it?
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The Common Gateway Interface allows information providers to pubish
non-static documentation on non-static events based
on all the potential variables you can
concievably program. In essanece, a script created document can know
whatever you computer knows!
You're Computer Knows things You don't want the
world to know!
For example, let's print out a file not not normally accessable to the
public on the server
CGI can also provide information from a device attached to the server,
like a thermometer or a camera.
Here's a live capture of what's going on in the lab
right now.
