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An ISP Project on CGI and Perl
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Welcome to linusnation.tripod.com, a page dedicated to my Independant
Study Project on CGI(Common Gateway Interface) and Perl(the language of choice for programming
CGI scripts). Since this site is based on these topics, maybe a defention and explaination of them is
in order. CGI (as meantioned before) is an acronym for a Common Gateway Interface. What does this mean?
Well simply, it's a way two computers are able interact despite the specifications of their systems
(eq, operating systems, software, etc). CGI 'programs' are called scripts. The difference between a
program and a script is the location of it when it is run. Programs reside locally on a users machine,
where scripts are executed remotly on a servers machine. This gives anyone the ability to use CGI pages since
the perl compiler also resides on the server.
If you haven't tried already, click the links on the side and you'll probably some that display
no content. This is Normal, don't panic, all pages are not yet completed, check back for updates below.
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