> Which has made me wonder more then once if in a security > through obscurity approach sites pass perl scripts off as ASP, etc. >
Maybe, I don't see why I'd want to make people think I'm using insecure stuff when I'm really using the best, but maybe. > For instance, Ebay's servers are run by IBM (hence the big > blue IBM logo on their sites). But all the forms like > through to files ending in .dll. That doesn't make much > sense to me, I would think IBM would run AIX / *nix servers for Ebay. > Yeah, Ebay's stuff is really screwy I think. > > - *nix systems come with perl installed and use perl for lots of > > stuff, > > Perhaps I should have better said, why isn't it used more on the web? > > > - Perl is run as .cgi a lot of times so you may not notice > it's Perl > > like you would the other kinds. > > Yes, but ASP and JSP end scripts in .asp and .jsp > respectively, which makes me wonder why I don't see less JSP > and ASP tags. > To combat this I try to use .pl or .plx as of late. I also suggested before on this list that Perl developers focus on using CSS in their web site output to make their pages *look* nicer. (See my whole PHP rant earlier in the thread) IE - Basically that if a PHP/ASP/JSP/Whatever page *looks* nicer most people don't realize that PHP/ASP/JSP/Whatever have nothing to do with the way it looks, it's the HTML/CSS/XML that it outputs that determines the nice looks, So they never realize Perl is more flexible and powerful. For instance I was talking to a gentleman who was showing me his new web server ($$$ for Winders and IIS) with his new sexxy web app he was looking forward to using, and he was proud because "He had connections that saved him 10% so he only paid $3000 for it". I was shocked so I looked at his site with him and got a list of it's "awesome features". That night I did the same thing in Perl and used the html/css from his site for the looks and I showed him the next day and he about died because mine did everything his did, looked the same and it was free. The only differenece was now he had a sort of torn and bleeding feeling in his bottom ;p > Thanks for all your comments, > > -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
