CGI Script

A small program written in the programming language Perl, Tcl, C / C ++, which is executed on a web server and acts as an interface between the web page and databases / applications. Some of their functions is to organize database queries through the Internet. This process follows these steps: the user enters data into the form, the request is sent to the web server, CGI-script queries the database, gets the response and generates a response to a user request. There are similar technologies available for the communications with between the client and the server. They are: ASP, JSP and PHP.