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By Steve Litt You can skip this article if you're familiar with its concepts. CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, a method of communication between web browsers and web servers. It's trivially simple, consisting of an ordinary computer program, with specific but simple standards for information input and output, normally run on the computer hosting the web pages. When used thusly, the computer program is called a CGI program. Since POST is by far the more common, the remainder of this Troubleshooting Professional will concentrate on the POST method.