RT Ticket #155: Wrong terminology in CGI glossary entry

[phinjensen]

Created: Mon Jan 21 13:16:41 2008
Requestors: Stefan Hornburg

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Quote:

The HTTP (Web) protocol does not use the same mechanism to send data
from server to client, and from client to server. Client to server
communication must usually happen over CGI (Common Gateway Interface),
by having users submit HTML forms.

That is not true, as from Wikipedia:

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for
interfacing external application software with an information server,
commonly a web server.

So CGI deals with the communication between web server and application
server / programs.

Regards
Racke