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What is BGI (Binary Gateway Interface)?

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Ron Renoe

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Sep 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/28/95
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I thought he said CGI, but a provider insisted that a new standard is
emerging. I have used a couple of search engines and have not found anything
on "BGI" or "Binary Gateway Interface." Nothing in the FAQ about this. Can
anyone give me more information? Thanks.


Eugene Kim

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Sep 28, 1995, 3:00:00 AM9/28/95
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First I've heard of it. BGI = Borland Graphics Interface, which has
nothing to do with the web or CGI.

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Larry W. Virden

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Oct 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/2/95
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Check Netscape's site and see if they have the info up yet on BGI.
I believe that's the name for the interface for binary plug-in's.
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Mike Meyer

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Oct 6, 1995, 3:00:00 AM10/6/95
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In <EEKIM.95S...@scunix4.harvard.edu>, ee...@scunix4.harvard.edu (Eugene Kim) wrote:
> In article <44ebqh$i...@alpha.sky.net> rre...@sky.net (Ron Renoe) writes:
> > I thought he said CGI, but a provider insisted that a new standard is
> > emerging. I have used a couple of search engines and have not found anything
> > on "BGI" or "Binary Gateway Interface." Nothing in the FAQ about this. Can
> > anyone give me more information? Thanks.
> First I've heard of it. BGI = Borland Graphics Interface, which has
> nothing to do with the web or CGI.

BGI is also the name of an interface used to let web servers pass
requests off to external code in the same process, thus avoiding the
cost of forking a process that CGI entails.

It was proposed by the authors of MDMA, and pretty much ignored by
other server authors. A number of them have dealt with that
performance issue in different ways, but I don't know of any that
implemented BGI (if something other than MDMA implemented BGI, I'd
like to hear about it. Spinner, maybe?).

See <URL:http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdma-release/BGI-spec.txt> for more
information.

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