[CS5281] Adv and DisAdv of CGI

Adv:
1. You can use any language you like.
2. A lot of available libraries on internet.
3. easy to setup

DisAdv:

1. CGI requires a fresh copy of the program to be executed for every CGI request, the workload could quickly overwhelm web servers, so new technology like mod_perl which allow script interpreters to be integrated directly into web servers to avoid the overwhelm.
or
Each executed script starts a new process, which can slow down a Web site's server.