CGI is an abbreviation for Common Gateway Interface.  http://www.w3c.org/ is one body which proposes and approves standards for internet applications - see [[quote reference]] for CGI related standards.

In Tcl, [ncgi] is a module in [tcllib] that deals with CGI.  Another useful package is [Don Libes]'s [cgi.tcl extension].  ncgi, along with [html]-[htmlparse], and later [javascript], essentially factors cgi.tcl, while introducing namespace amenities.

[[List other useful references - perhaps like Apache's mod_dtcl, etc.]

I've been told that JM IVler's [BOOK CGI Developer's Resource - Web Programming in Tcl and Perl] is quite a good reference on CGI and Tcl.

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[[I should make a point of explaining clearly that there are several
distinct approaches to CGI coding with Tcl, including:
   * [ncgi]
   * cgi.tcl
   * JM Ivler's book
   * http://cui.unige.ch/eao/www/prod/http-query-setup.txt
   * "by hand", described in "[Writing simple CGI applications using vanilla Tcl]" and "[Using Tcl to write CGI applications]"
   * "[WiKit under CGI]"
   * cgilib.tcl from Brent's book.  ncgi is descended from and largely supersedes cgilib.
   * [websh] can be used in CGI mode for Apache 1.3 and 2.0
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[[ [Fast CGI] (punctuation?) is also likely to be of interest. ]]

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To the extent that CGI is used in the casual sense of "dynamically generated web pages, or forms handling", there is also AOLServer, with its built-in TCL interpreter and database hooks, and nstcl, which is a TCL-only extension which has AOLServer's API to http queries and database handling, as well as a templating library.

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