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<html><head><title>The Common Gateway Interface Specification
[http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html]
</title></head><body><h1><img alt="" src="interface_files/CGIlogo.gif"> The CGI Specification</h1>
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This is the specification for CGI version 1.1, or CGI/1.1. Further
revisions of this protocol are guaranteed to be backward compatible.
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The server and the CGI script communicate in four major ways. Each of
the following is a hotlink to graphic detail.</p><p>
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<li> <a href="env.html">Environment variables</a>
</li><li> <a href="cl.html">The command line</a>
</li><li> <a href="in.html">Standard input</a>
</li><li> <a href="out.html">Standard output</a>
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CGI - Common Gateway Interface
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