The RunCGI plug-in

For a long time, the CGI interface was the onl;y way to create dynamic pages on a server. CGI's are external applications that are called by the server, they need to be executed each time a request is passed to them. Many legacy systems used these "easy to create in just about any language" solutions. Most functions that were CGI oriented are now plug-in or servlet based since this offers more portability and execution speed.

The principal reason to keep these old CGI's running is that very often, hundreds of pages rely on them for some process or web based application and it would not be economically wise to rewrite all of these to some new Server base.
An extension list will be built from the cgi.list file. Allowing for any extension structure to be used, aftewards, the request is matched to fit an actual CGI processed which is launched.

  • HoverWEB with the RunCGI plug-in creates a seamless interface to legacy plug-ins
  • Use them as they used to work if they complied with NCSA standards
  • Just edit the cgi.list file to enable or disable your CGI softwares.
  • Internet Interactif can most probably port your existing CGI to a plug-in or Servlet.


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