On the World Wide Web

• Interactions between the webserver and the database must be standardized

• CGI

  • Common Gateway Interface is the oldest standard
  • Standardizes ways of passing data values to DBMS
  • Standardizes ways of receiving results from DBMS, sending as webpages
  • Slow: each interaction restarts the DBMS program, unless proprietary APIs are used

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