CGI Links and Resources

General CGI Information

Common Gateway Interface Overview

Common Gateway Interface overview from the folks responsible for the World Wide Web's explosion in 1993, NCSA (makers of the original Mosaic Web browser).

The Common Gateway Interface Primer

After reading this document, you should have an overall idea of what a CGI program needs to do to function.

The Common Gateway Interface Specification

No-nonsense approach to explaining what CGI programs do and why, plus links to online tutorials, resources and other cgi-related links like...

A Perl 4 Workshop

Very extensive Perl programming resource. Extremely useful for the more advanced cgi-bin programmers.

Places on the Web to Get CGI Scripts

The CGI Resource Index

In our opinion, the best source for locating CGI scripts you can use on your Web site.  They have an extensive listing of scripts for virtually any purpose you could think of.  

Matt Wright's Script Archive

Matt Wright is now known throughout the world for his own collection of publicly available cgi-bin scripts that you may customize for your own website. We are very familiar with Matt Wright's cgi-bin scripts and have installed them many times for our clients. These scripts include mailto scripts, message boards, random link and image generators, counters and a small search engine, among others.

Selena Sol's Public Domain CGI Script Archive and Resource Library

Selena Sol has a variety of cgi scripts and java resources. The most popular are the database scripts.

Yahoo's CGI resource listing

What reference would be complete without pointing you to a megalist of other sources to peruse that particular area of cgi-bin that you're looking for?

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