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Writing CGI Executables as Console-Based Applications

One of the best approaches to writing a CGI script executable is a console-based application that runs native or interpreted on the operating system and machine platform of your choice.

The Common Gateway Interface Standard (CGI) supports passing HTML form parameters to a CGI script via the stdin file and receiving results from the CGI script as printout to the stdout file. CGI scripts can be written in any language that supports the use of stdin, stdout and stderr for the input, output and error response files of a console-based application.

The Web Server passes the content of a HTML form into the stdin file and executes the CGI console application. The application can parse the contents of stdin, act on it in some way (this is specific to your platform and operating system), and then can print out a HTML page into the stdout file. The Web Server takes this DYNAMIC HTML page (contents of stdout) and sends it back to the Web Browser that triggered the form in the first place!

The following Libraries contain routines and procedures for:

Parsing stdin file inputs into the CGI executable
generating HTML dynamically to the stdout file
Other handly functions for all the action between stdin and stdout!

Writing CGI Executables in C

The following C Libraries or sources are available to help write C CGI scripts:

cgic: a C library for CGI programming

Writing CGI Interpreted Scripts with PERL

The following PERL Libraries or sources are available to help write PERL CGI scripts:

cgi-lib.pl - library for creating Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts in the PERL language
CGI.pm - a Perl5 CGI Library

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