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thanks for answering my question...but i need more details on this... I'm not actually submitting a form or something... I just wanted to start an application on my web server when ever this link is clicked...<br />

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thanks for answering my question...but i need more details on this... I'm not actually submitting a form or something... I just wanted to start an application on my web server when ever this link is clicked...


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That is the same.<br />
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Say you have a cgi, whose url is <a href="http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi" rel="ugc">http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi</a>. &nbsp;Then you should have a link such as: <a href="http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi?querystring" rel="ugc">http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi?querystring</a>.<br />
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If the cgi program does not need to have any input, then you can omit the ?querystring part. <br />

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That is the same.

Say you have a cgi, whose url is http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi [http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi].  Then you should have a link such as: http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi?querystring [http://yourhost/yourcgi.cgi?querystring].

If the cgi program does not need to have any input, then you can omit the ?querystring part.


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I'm trying to learn CGI , i just want to know how to start an application to run on a webserver after the client hits a link to that application.
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I'm trying to learn CGI , i just want to know how to start an application to run on a webserver after the client hits a link to that application.

Starting an applicationon the web server

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.