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-.\" cgi - Common Gateway Interface
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
-.\"
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-.\"
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-.TH cgi 5 "15 February 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux" "Programmer's Manual"
-.SH NAME
-cgi \- Common Gateway Interface
-
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-The Common Gateway Interface is a way to create dynamic web pages.
-It defines rules for interaction between a program and the web server
-while the server talks to the client. There are some ways to use it.
-
-.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
-Normally the webserver sets several environment variables to give some
-information to the CGI program so it can determine various stuff.
-.TP
-.B AUTH_TYPE
-This reflects the authentification method used to validate a user.
-.TP
-.B CONTENT_LENGTH
-The length of the data in bytes passed to the CGI program through
-standard input. This is used by the POST method.
-.TP
-.B CONTENT_TYPE
-The MIME type of the query data, such as "text/html", optional.
-.TP
-.B DOCUMENT_ROOT
-This reflects the document root directory of the webserver.
-.TP
-.B GATEWAY_INTERFACE
-Reflects the version of the Common Gateway Interface that the server
-is using
-.TP
-.B HTTP_ACCEPT
-A comma separated list of MIME type that the client is willing to
-accept.
-.TP
-.B HTTP_FROM
-The email address of the user issuing the information request. This
-is not supported by most browsers.
-.TP
-.B HTTP_REFERER
-Reflects the URL from which tis cgi program was accessed.
-.TP
-.B HTTP_USER_AGENT
-The name, version and libraries of the browser making the request.
-This information can be used to determine if the browser is capable of
-graphics and is able to display frames and tables.
-.TP
-.B PATH_INFO
-This shows extra information that was passed to the cgi program via
-command line. Normally it's empty or non-existant.
-.TP
-.B PATH_TRANSLATED
-The translated path on the local filesystem.
-.TP
-.B QUERY_STRING
-This variable refers to additional arguments that were appended to the
-cgi programm - normally with the '?' sign.
-.TP
-.B REMOTE_ADDR
-This refers to the host from which the information request was issued,
-as ip number.
-.TP
-.B REMOTE_HOST
-This refers to the host from which the information request was issued.
-.TP
-.B REMOTE_USER
-The authenticated name of the user.
-.TP
-.B REQUEST_METHOD
-This refers to the method with which the information request was
-issued. Normally this is either GET or POST.
-.TP
-.B SCRIPT_NAME
-The virtual name of the script being executed.
-.TP
-.B SERVER_NAME
-The server's hostname or ip number. This may be used to determine the
-correct paths or resulting HTML code for cgi programs that are used on
-the same machine for several servers.
-.TP
-.B SERVER_PROTOCOL
-This is the nae and version of the information protocol the request
-came in with. Normally this is "HTTP/1.0" or "HTTP/1.1".
-.TP
-.B SERVER_PORT
-This refers to the TCP/IP port on which the webserver is running.
-.TP
-.B SERVER_SOFTWARE
-This reflects the name and revision of the webserver software.
-
-.SH "AUTHOR"
-This cgi library is written by Martin Schulze
-<joey@infodrom.north.de>. If you have additions or improvements
-please get in touch with him.
-
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR cgiDebug (3),
-.BR cgiHeader (3),
-.BR cgiGetValue (3).
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