ocr: Browser Requests HTML Web Server CGI Protocol HTML HTML HTML Files CGI Program Database FIGURE - A DBMS Common to pass Gateway data into Interface a database (CGI) and program return can data interact from with the a database to the Web browser as a formatted HTML file. Developers can write CGI programs in many languages (PERL and C are popular), and these pro- grams can reside on the same machine as a Web server, or elsewhere on a network.
