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mbd · Jan 14th, 2008, 10:33 PM

file extensions are mostly meaningless. windows maintains a map between file extensions and the programs which should be used to open them. apache web server does something similar. CGI is an interface agreed upon by rfc 3875. it is used to pass information from web requests to executables. CGI can pass data to any type of executable which can understand it. your .cgi files are probably parsed for a #! line which maps your particular .cgi file to be executed by perl. in short, file extensions are pretty much meaningless.

Jan 14th, 2008, 10:33 PM	#2
mbd Programmer Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 86 Rep Power: 1	Re: .cgi Vs .pl file extensions are mostly meaningless. windows maintains a map between file extensions and the programs which should be used to open them. apache web server does something similar. CGI is an interface agreed upon by rfc 3875. it is used to pass information from web requests to executables. CGI can pass data to any type of executable which can understand it. your .cgi files are probably parsed for a #! line which maps your particular .cgi file to be executed by perl. in short, file extensions are pretty much meaningless.