Introduction
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The Delphi CGI Component provides an easy way to write CGI scripts using Delphi version 3. The component will also work on Delphi 2 or Delphi 1 although it has not been fully tested and is therefore not supported for these versions.

This documentaion assumes that:

If this is not the case then you may find the following helpful:

CGI Tutorial, explains the concepts of CGI

HTML forms and HTML in general

You will need to have a way of testing your CGI scripts locally and to do this in Windows we reccomend the O'Reilly Website package which you can download from our homepage on http://www.codecity.com/cgi

A sample script is supplied with the component, and examining the source to this script is an invaluable way of learning how to use the component.

If you are looking for a sutiable place to host your website on the internet you may wish to check out http://www.codecity.com/cgi/hosting or search the net for companies providing Virtual Servers. Your site will need to be hosted on a Windows NT server if you are going to use Delphi and the CGI component to write your CGI scripts.