Hi,
IMHO, I think you should revise your analisys. The notion that files
that end up with "jsp" have to be Java Server Pages, with "asp" ->
Active Server Pages is like saying that if a file is .txt, it means is a
text file and if it doesn't ent with .txt, it's not. So it's completely
wrong. And the notion that URL's follow this convention is twice as
wrong. There's at least once case that has been exposed in this list of
some guy that used ".html" as suffix for his JSP pages because he wanted
his dynamic site to be indexed by search engines. I use different
suffixes in my applications depending of the name of the application,
".leaf", ".sm"... You just have to set up your container appropiately.
And I guess the same can be done with asp, javascript, ... The days
where you could explicitly tell the technology from the suffix of the
files were gone "a while" ago :).
And I agree with you that it's difficult to think of a reason why
somebody would use plain CGI's instead of Java, PHP or something better
nowadays, but your description of CGI technology is rather partial. You
talk of CGI as if it were a product/application server but it is an
interface specification, not an implementation. And if you have a look
at the Altavista search engine, guess one technology they are using in
their web site? I could be wrong, you cannot be completely sure
nowadays, but I can't think of any reason they would use the "/cgi-bin/"
mapping unless they are using this technology.
On a side note, I was also astonished by your "Webmaster Rule Number
One" ;). I guess you don't let your potential customers read this motto
in professional mails, do you?. Or is calling your self, so blatantly, a
liar a new way of marketing?
Regards,
Dan
PD: No pun intended, it's just too early in Spain :).
> Bobby Kaushal wrote:
>
> Someone wrote as a reply that pages with the extenision .jsp is not
> necessarily a java server page, it's just a dynamically created page,
> all i have to say is: Whaaaat?
>
> Of course it's a java server page, active server pages have the
> extension .asp and java server pages has .jsp as an extension.....
> Duh!!!
>
> And for what the initial email that the above reader responded to,
> there is no reason in this universe that anyone would want to use cgi
> instead of JSPs. CGI is the worst technology that the internet was
> ever corrupted with. It's so slow, it's the reason why E-Commerce
> sites looses a lot of business when customers click on the Submit
> button and they have to wait an hour before the transaction has
> completed, so they the users/clients just leave out of impatience.
>
> Also cgi is hacker prone. I read on the Techweb site that a hacker
> can easily retrieve credit card information and so on on a web site
> that uses CGI. Secondly it's so damn slow, thirdly, if you are part
> of an E-Commerce company or Consulting Firm, then if you tell you
> clients that you still use CGI, hehe, then you can kiss them goodbye
> soon.
>
> Bobby Kaushal
> Programmer Analyst
>
> Webmaster Rule Number One
> When a potential employer/client asks you if you've ever worked with
> XYZ software running on platform ABC, say "yes" quickly and with great
> assurance. Then run home, fire up the Net, and figure out what the
> hell they were talking about.
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