libcgi 0.1 Comment

Bob Denny (rdenny@netcom.com)
Sat, 9 Jul 94 11:49:55 PDT


On Sat, 9 Jul 1994 03:40:55 +0200 Jay C. Weber wrote:

> [...]
>Isn't it time we started calling them "CGI programs" instead of
>"CGI scripts"? ;-)

ABSOLUTELY! This was an issue when I wrote the Windows httpd documentation. Furthermore,
we aren't writing "gateways" all the time either, so it should be Common ???? Interface.
The HTTP protocol, including the "extra header" capability, can be used for virtually
limitless applications, not just serving HTML documents and related services.

-- Bob