Re: difference btw CGI and HTML scripts

[Geoff Torres <geoff@rosemail.rose.hp.com>]

Tyler wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:01:23PM +0800, simon Shaw wrote:
> > Hi..
> >
> > Could you tell him what is the difference between HTML and CGI scripts??
> > What is the relationship between them? When we need to create CGI script in
> > /var/www/cgi-bin/ compare to the html scripts in /var/www/html/*.html
> >
> > Simon
> >
> 
> Look, I don't mean to sound harsh here, but if you can't figure this out
> yourself by reading the available documentation, an answer from someone
> on this list is probably not going to be meaningful or useful to you.

It might sound a little less harsh if you provide a pointer for him.

Simon,  what Tyler is saying (and I agree) is that the nature of your question shows how little you know about HTML in general and no one here really has the time to provide a tutorial for you.  I would suggest a class or online tutorial to get you up to
speed.  I first started with the O-Reilly books for basic HTML web pages.  There are many other good books available.

The short, high-level (and incomplete) answer to your question is that HTML code is essentially the I/O of a web page and CGI scripts are the logic.  A web page will collect user data and invoke the CGI script when you push the "submit" button.  The script
should output the results in HTML code.

Geoff