The Hyper-G Gateway Interface (HGI)
- CGI makes and breaks a connection for every request -> inefficient.
- HGI allows server to hold a persistent connection
to an external source.
- A HGI-conformant SQL gateway is supplied.
- A Perl 5 module is available for writing arbitrary HGI gateways.
- See http://www.iicm.edu/hgi
for futher details.