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Are Active Server Pages also CGI?

Yes and no (don’t you love straight answers). Active Server Pages and CGI scripts do similar things – namely create dynamic output on a web page or react to form input. However, Active Server Pages run in the same process as the server, and they are multi-threaded. All this leads to faster speeds than CGI scripts can achieve and the ability to handle large numbers of users.

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