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data7（data7） This article is contributed by Sirius Implementation of CGI under Windows operation platform Institute of image recognition and artificial intelligence, Huazhong University of science and technology, Gong Jianyong There are a variety of ways to achieve interaction between the WWW server and the client, such as CGI, ISAPI, JAVA, ASP, CGI is a familiar one of the effective ways to realize the function, this article on how to realize the CGI function on Windows platform is introduced. I. overview of CGI 1.CGI concept CGI is the universal gateway interface (Common Gateway Interface), which is a standard interface for WWW server hosts for external services. In general, the function of an CGI interface is to pass information between hypertext files and server host applications. 2.CGI programming language In fact, any programming language that allows you to write applications on the server host using the CGI interface can be called CGI programming language. At present, the most popular CGI programming language has four kinds: C, Shell, Perl and Visual Basic, and some other languages are also used by many people, such as TCL, Frotran and AppleScript. Next, we will introduce the method of writing CGI in C language. The execution of the 3.CGI program CGI programs are generally executable programs. Compiled CGI programs usually focus on a directory. The specific location with the operating system is different, for example, the UNIX system is placed in the cgi-bin sub directory in the Windows operation (note that this does not include NT4.0) with Webstar or Website as the WWW server, the CGI program on cgi-win. C GI program generally has two ways: one is by calling the URL directly call, such as http://gjy.sic.o.ml.or g/cgi-win/cgi.exe in column URL in Netscape directly into the above description can be called the program: another way, is also the main way is through the interactive home FORM bar call, usually the user is in a complete table after press confirm but