: I am a little confused about what exactly a CGI is. According to my : understanding, Common gateway interface tells the webserver how to pass : data back and forth to and from an application. user (client) requests for : a page---->webserver (CGI)----> server side program (may be Solr). Could : you please tell me in details what exactly a CGI and why Solr cannot : support it?
CGI means diff things to diff people. At it's core, CGI was the early foundation of the basic principles for how browsers should encode form data in order to communicate that data to a server, either in the URL, or in the HTTP request body -- this is what eventually became "application/x-www-url-form-encoded" Confusingly in the early days of CGI, it also defined a general mechansim for HTTP servers to execute forked processes per request, and how to convey to those processes information about the request via process ENVIRONMENT variables (not just the encoded "CGI request params" but also info about the HTTP headers) and how to interpret the STDOUT/STDERR of the forked as http headers & response content to send back to the client. As a java webapp, solr most certianly "supports CGI" in the first ocntext -- you can see that plainly in the examples of any sort of Solr request URL. Solr does not "support CGI" in the second context, because Solr runs as java webapp, not a forked process. Your questions smells fishy however, particularly since you asked "if Solr support CGI" and then stated "I am a little confused about what exactly a CGI is" ... if you don't know what it is, then why are you asking about it? what is your actual goal? https://people.apache.org/~hossman/#xyproblem XY Problem Your question appears to be an "XY Problem" ... that is: you are dealing with "X", you are assuming "Y" will help you, and you are asking about "Y" without giving more details about the "X" so that we can understand the full issue. Perhaps the best solution doesn't involve "Y" at all? See Also: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=542341 -Hoss
