CGI access

[jeetendraets]

Hi,
What is CGI access?

[Shane84]

CGI access is a program designed to accept and return data between World Wide Web server and a CGI specification.

[Manov]

C.G.I. stands for Common Gateway Interface.
Technically speaking, CGI is a standard for external gateway programs to interface with information servers such as web servers.

In other words, at least as Internet web servers goes, CGI is a standard to follow when writing programs that run inside web servers. Since the Internet consists of many different types of computer hardware and software, CGI standard helps programmers to write programs that are compatible with different web servers.

A CGI script or a program is then a program that runs inside a web server.

[jamsen]

When you are dealing with Web pages, you will often hear people talk about CGI or CGI scripts without ever explaining exactly what that is. Essentially, CGI is the connection (or interface) between a form on a Web page and the Web server.

[bidaddy]

The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, protocol is used to run guestbooks, forums and other interactive scripts on websites, and cPanel provides webmasters and bloggers with a number of ways to get CGI access

[Amit Acharya]

JavaScript and CGI Talking to Each Other. Sometimes it is desirable to publish information on a web page that can only be provided by a program running on the server. Using Server Side Includes is a common way of doing this. ... Create a JavaScript variable to hold the number. Call the CGI program with certain information.