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Server Side Includes

Two General Themes

Use programs to generate HTML
Use instructions within HTML pages to produce self-generated HTML documents

SSI Begat a number of Successors

php/fi (free -- GPL)
MetaHTML (free; also commercial version)
NeoWebScript (commercial)
Mivascript/HTMLscript (commercial)
Allaire Cold Fusion (commercial)
Server-side Javascript (Netscape)
Active Server Pages (Microsoft)
....

Provide a rich, embedded scripting environment.

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