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iliketoworkhard
on Oct 23, 2019
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What is CGI in this context? I’ve only heard of it in a movie special effects context.
Dylan16807
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The web server having to run an external program to handle the request, typically because it's written in a scripting language.
Technically it stands for "common gateway interface" but that doesn't come up very much.
parliament32
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
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