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Answer 1)The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard (see RFC 3875: CGI Version 1.1) method for web servers
software to delegate the generation of web pages to executable files. Such files are known as CGI scripts;
they are programs, often stand-alone applications, usually written in a scripting language.
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Answer 2)CGI-BIN does
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Answer 3)The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGI programs are stored. The “bin” part of
“cgi-bin” is a shorthand version of “binary”, because once upon a time, most programs were refered to as
“binaries”. In real life, most programs found in cgi-bin directories are text files -- scripts that are
executed by binaries located elsewhere on the same machine.
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