1<html><head><title>The Common Gateway Interface Specification 2[http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html] 3</title></head><body><h1><img alt="" src="interface_files/CGIlogo.gif"> The CGI Specification</h1> 4 5<hr> 6 7This is the specification for CGI version 1.1, or CGI/1.1. Further 8revisions of this protocol are guaranteed to be backward compatible. 9<p> 10 11The server and the CGI script communicate in four major ways. Each of 12the following is a hotlink to graphic detail.</p><p> 13 14</p><ul> 15<li> <a href="env.html">Environment variables</a> 16</li><li> <a href="cl.html">The command line</a> 17</li><li> <a href="in.html">Standard input</a> 18</li><li> <a href="out.html">Standard output</a> 19</li></ul> 20<hr> 21 22 23<a href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html"><img alt="[Back]" src="interface_files/back.gif">Return to the overview</a> <p> 24 25 26 27CGI - Common Gateway Interface 28</p><address><a href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/mailtocgi.html">cgi@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a></address> 29</body></html> 30