The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Version 1.1

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 36
Abstract: The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple interface for running external programs, software or gateways under an information server in a platform-independent manner. Currently, the supported information servers are HTTP servers. The interface has been in use by the World-Wide Web (WWW) since 1993. This specification defines the 'current practice' parameters of the 'CGI/1.1' interface developed and documented at the U.S. National Centre for Supercomputing Applications. This document also defines the use of the CGI/1.1 interface on UNIX(R) and other, similar systems. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC3875
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3875
Author(s): David Robinson
Ken A.L. Coar
Keyword(s): World Wide Web

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Normative Reference(s)

ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998 [Active]
"HTTP Status Code Registry", http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes , IANA. EXTERNAL
"Information Systems -- Coded Character Sets -- 7-bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII)", ANSI INCITS.4-1986 (R2002). EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1945 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2046 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2396 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2616 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2617 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2732 [Superseded*]

Bibliographic Reference(s)

IBM National Language Support Reference Manual Volume 2, SE09-8002-01, March 1990. EXTERNAL
"The Common Gateway Interface", http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/ , NCSA, University of Illinois. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 822 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 1034 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1123 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1413 [Active*]
IETF RFC 1630 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2246 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2388 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2818 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3513 [Superseded*]
W3C.html401 — HTML401 EXTERNAL

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IETF RFC 4329 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7617 [Active*]