Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

• A fancy name for a set of environment variables

• QUERY_STRING - the server puts the bit of the URL after the ? into here

• PATH_INFO - The server will put the part of the URL after the script name in here

eg:

http://www/cgi-bin/htimage/usr/tmp/uk_map?234,567

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