CGI parseCGI parse is the name of a program to parse CGI (Common Gateway Interface) input that uses the POST method. CGI is a standard for interfacing external gateway programs with information servers, such as HTTP. Together, a CGI and HTTP are responsible for sending back responses to a client request.
To parse is defined as to determine or comprehend the syntactic structure of a sentence or other utterance. The purpose of a CGI parse program is to determine the structure of CGI input. A CGI script doesn't get sent information about the fields, only the data the user entered. The CGI script can only tell whether or not there were multiple fields with the same name. A CGI parse program serves to decode such data.