According to www.pcwebopaedia.com, a CGI program is defined as: "A CGI program is any program designed to accept and return data that conforms to the CGI specification"
In short Perl is a language and CGI is not. CGI is an interface that allows you to transfer information between a CGI program and the webserver. So yes, you can use your Perl scripts as CGI scripts... just as long as they pring the proper content type headers. Here is a Perl script: print "Hello World"; Here is a CGI script: print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; print "Hello World"; Beyond the content type you also need to learn how to grab form/querystring data since a CGI script does not take any input from the command line. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Naveen Parmar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl and CGI What are the differences between Perl and CGI? Can I simply rename Perl files to .CGI and use them? What is the crossover from Perl to CGI? TIA, - NP _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
