Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide. Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web. What is CGI and How To Use Your CGI-BIN CGI Tutorial and Perl Introduction for Beginners. A lot of people have Web pages but most feel that CGI scripts are "over their head". Nonsense! If you know basic HTML and know how to use an FTP program like WS_FTP to transfer files, chances are you can be using a CGI script on your Web pages in about 15 minutes. With so many free CGI scripts available (including Bestdam Logger Lite) you are really short-changing yourself if you are not using the CGI capabilities offered by your ISP or host provider to use CGI scripts. While there are a lot of "CGI Tutorial" pages out there, most deal with how to write CGI scripts. For those who just want to know how to use CGI scripts, information is pretty scarce. That's why this page was created.
What Is CGI ? * Note: Java is not a scripting language. Even though the script code for PHP, ColdFusion, and ASP is embedded in the HTML code, it's not visible at the browser (when using View/Source). 1. If the answer to both of these questions is "Yes", you're good to go. Back to your CGI situation.