July 2000
Intermediate to advanced
492 pages
14h 53m
English
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The Dynamic Internet Part I: CGI Applications
One of the first extensions of the static internet was the creation of the Common Gateway Interface. The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, provides a mechanism by which a web browser can communicate a request for the execution of an application on the web server. The result of this application is converted/formatted into a browser-readable (HTML) form and sent to the requesting browser.
CGI applications raised the bar on what was expected from a web site and transitioned the World Wide Web from an easy way to share information to a viable platform for information processing. The response to this evolution of the Web was rapidly accelerated growth and the beginning of the business world's interest in the Internet.
Part of this growth was the creation of several client-side scripting solutions that enabled the client's machine to take on part of the processing tasks. Chief among these client-side solutions are Netscape's JavaScript and Microsoft's VBScript.
During this huge growth in Internet-based technologies, Microsoft released its Internet Information Server. Touted as being easy to use, scalable, portable, secure, and extensible, it is also free and closely integrated with Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems. It quickly became very popular.
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