<article lang="&language;" id="cgi">
<title
>cgi</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Lauri.Watts;&Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
</articleinfo>

<para
>The <acronym
>CGI</acronym
> slave provides a way to execute <acronym
>CGI</acronym
> programs without the need to have a running web server. This can for example be used for local testing of <acronym
>CGI</acronym
> programs or for using search engines that only provide a <acronym
>CGI</acronym
> frontend like the one from <application
>Doxygen</application
>.</para>

<para
>The slave implements the <command
>cgi:</command
> protocol. It uses the filename from the given &URL; and searches a configurable list of folders. If it finds an executable with the given name it executes it, passes the arguments of the &URL; and sets the environment variables needed by <acronym
>CGI</acronym
> programs.</para>

</article>