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Really really dumb newbie question
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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What does CGI stand for?
Can someone recommend a site where I can download some counter scripts that I can put on my web page. I am a newbie at this so the easier the better but I don't want to use any of the commercial ones off the net.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It's a way of using a Web browser to run programs on a server, and have that program send its output back to the Web browser. The earliest dynamic Web pages used CGI, and many still do. It's beginning to sort of fall out of fashion, in favor of PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, and other methods which run as a part of the Webserver itself, rather than running a separate program, but it's still in common use.
The interesting thing about CGI is that it's not tied to one language. Any program that can read input from the command line and output back to it can, at least in theory, be a CGI program. Most are done in Perl, but you can also find them in Tcl, Python, shell scripts, plain C applications... even AppleScript!
In terms of finding counter programs, I suggest starting your search at [url]http://www.hotscripts.com[/b]. There are plenty of things there to get you started.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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You're right. It was a dumb question consdering you're on the 'net and there are a million and a half dictionaries at your fingertips. If you cut off your fingers than it wasn't a dumb question 
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Originally posted by Millennium:
[QB]The earliest dynamic Web pages used CGI, and many still do. It's beginning to sort of fall out of fashion, in favor of PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, and other methods which run as a part of the Webserver itself, rather than running a separate program, but it's still in common use.
The interesting thing about CGI is that it's not tied to one language. Any program that can read input from the command line and output back to it can, at least in theory, be a CGI program. Most are done in Perl, but you can also find them in Tcl, Python, shell scripts, plain C applications... even AppleScript!
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Ummm ASP is not run "as part of the Webserver itself" as it exists as ASP.DLL which is just another ISAPI. You have ASP.DLL (and your app) run in the same process, its own process, etc completely separate from the web server.
All server-side scripting languages qualify as CGI. Just because it's not Perl, Python, TCl, etc doesn't make it NOT a CGI. CGI is a broad term. People just seem to think that a "scripting" language is different than CGI and new kids think CGI is an old technology. I guess the word has fallen out of favor to "scripting". Whatever..
..Just my 2 lines of script..
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