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What's the difference between CGI and Perl scripts?

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:11 pm
by Nick|NFo
On our webserver, they are treated the same, so the extensions are interchangeable. By convention, if a script uses Perl, you should give it a .pl extension. If it uses another language, such as compiled c or a shell script, use .cgi.