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Common Gateway Interface

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Entity Type

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

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unclassified

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Variants

acronym
CGI
plural
Common Gateway Interfaces
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Common Gateway Interface's
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Common Gateway Interfaces'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
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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.

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