How to find difference between CGI and Non-CGi?

Question

how i can find difference between CGI and Non-CGi web site while surfing the net or searching the net with yahoo or google ?

i want to know simple trick to find out that wether the site is CGI or Non-CGI

Answer 1

Because CGI is server side processing you should not be able to tell if CGI is being used because you are always going to be presented on your client machine with html and javaScript/VB Script.

You will never know if there is any inline CGI processing.

The only way that you can tell is to look at any html code for a form.  You may be able to tell from the action to be performed but this is not a guarantee.

Other than this you may be able to guess by the sort of display that a web site has presented as to how this has been achieved and to guess at CGI if you can see no evidence of any other sort of processing.  Java, JSP, ASP, PHP or Perl.

I hope this helps.  Have fun.

Answer 2

CGI is a server-side protocol.  Most CGI sites have .cgi at the end of the URL, although that isn't always the case.