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Common Gateway Interface for SIP

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Network Working Group                                          J. Lennox
Request for Comments: 3050                                H. Schulzrinne
Category: Informational                                      Columbia U.
                                                            J. Rosenberg
                                                             dynamicsoft
                                                            January 2001


                    Common Gateway Interface for SIP

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   In Internet telephony, there must be a means by which new services
   are created and deployed rapidly.  In the World Wide Web, the Common
   Gateway Interface (CGI) has served as popular means towards
   programming web services.  Due to the similarities between the
   Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Hyper Text Transfer
   Protocol (HTTP), CGI is a good candidate for service creation in a
   SIP environment.  This document defines a SIP CGI interface for
   providing SIP services on a SIP server.

IESG Note

   The IESG notes that the mechanism specified here depends on the
   Common Gateway Interface.  Should this interface change or be
   enhanced changes in this specification may also be necessary or
   appropriate.  According to the W3C, the CGI is presently maintained
   by the NCSA Software Development Group. See

      http://www.w3c.org/cgi

   for additional information on the current state of the CGI interface.









Lennox, et al.               Informational
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