Hi All!

Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is CGI script? I've seen it in almost all the web development tutorials, but none of them give me an adequate definition of what it is, and what it does ...

Thanks!

JDomain!!

    Common Gateway Interface or also you could associate Perl with it since it is commonly used for GCI or serverside applications. It works on the server to process information instead of the client side like JavaScript which works on the client (or in your browser). One benefit of using a server side to process form information is if a user has turned off JavaScript in their browser then it will work but a JavaScript form processor will not, so Perl or PHP will always work whereas JavaScript although faster may not. 🙂

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