Common Gateway Interface

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Common Gateway Interface. This mechanism is used by HTTP servers (web servers) to pass parameters to executable scripts in order to generate responses dynamically.

MWE

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network95%rule-basedr:entity.network.gear.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: CGI
plural: Common Gateway Interfaces
possessive: Common Gateway Interface's
pluralpossessive: Common Gateway Interfaces'

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