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Common Gateway Interface

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Common Gateway Interface
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) (McCool, 1995) is an interface under a Web server, such as HTTPD, for running external programs or gateways.

 


CGI (common gateway interface) applications are executables running on the webserver under the environment and user permissions of the webserver user. They may be written in any programming language (compiled) or scripting language (e.g. perl).

Common Gateway Interface
A standard for scripts that run external programs from a World Wide Web server.

CGI: Common Gateway Interface
CGM: 1) Computer Graphics Metafile; 2) Circle
CIR: Color Infrared ...

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) - A method for running computer programs, called CGI scripts, on the Web server based on input from a Web browser.

- MapServer CGI (Common Gateway Interface);
- PHP/MapScript [31,32];
- GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library)/OGR Utilities [33-36]: GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an Open Source license.

ASP: Active Server Pages CGI: Common Gateway Interface DEM: Digital Elevation Model. A digital representation of a continuous variable over a two-dimensional surface by a regular array of z values referenced to a common datum.

[computing] Acronym for Common Gateway Interface. A standard for scripts that run external programs from a World Wide Web server.

Computer Graphics Interface; Common gateway interface; Center for Geographic Information
CGIC
Canadian Geoscience Information Centre ...

See also: Network, Server, Interface, Area, GIS

GIS CommitCommon Object Request Broker Architecture

 
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