September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 6m
English
As you already know, when a user sends a request for a CGI script to the Web server, the server sends the request to the CGI script and then sends the data that the script returns back to the user that requested it. Server side includes work a bit differently. An SSI page is any page that the server parses for SSI directives. SSI directives are commands embedded in HTML comments that the Web server parses and replaces with whatever the directive calls for.
Unlike CGI programs, which are generally set apart in their own directory, cgi-bin, SSI pages are located in your Web directories with your regular HTML pages. Your Web server has to be configured to tell which files are regular HTML documents and which ones ...
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