http://loadaveragezero.com/app/drx/Internet/Protocols/CGI The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a specification in which an external program or script interacts with a Web server by accepting parameters from the server, and then returns results which are generally displayed in a Web browser. CGI CGI Computers/Programming/Internet/CGI © 2004-2008, Douglas W. Clifton, loadaveragezero.com, all rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-US doug@loadaveagezero.com (Douglas W. 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