On successful completion of this course, the student, with the aid of the appropriate reference materials, should be able to:

1. Define what a CGI is
2. Describe the context a CGI runs in
3. Describe how a CGI is invoked from a web page
4. Describe the differences between GET and POST CGI processing
5. Describe what the necessary environment variables are and how to access them
6. Describe how to emit responses to the server from a CGI
7. Specify how to emit non-EBCDIC data from a CGI
8. Suggest how to approach debugging and testing
9. Submit batch jobs from a CGI
10. Plan for / design a CGI interface that uses cookies to keep track of the process of a dialog
11. Describe the processing concerns and issues facing the design of a CGI that accesses DB2 data

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