On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Warhurst, SI (Spencer) wrote: > >The latest such complainer suggests "It is very bad practice to use exe >files in a website". Apart from the fact I am going to reply to him asking >him to tell me on what internet standard, or other respectable document, >does it say this - because I suspect he is making it up to suit his argument >- I was wondering if any other site admin has had this problem and whether >there is a way of masking wa.exe. I was initially thinking of Apache's >RewriteRule function, ie: I could do a global replace on all Listserv TPL >files and change "wa.exe" to say "wascript", then put a rewriterule in to >change "wascript" back to "wa.exe". That way no-one would ever be actually >clicking on a link that contained wa.exe. Has anyone else done that, might >it lead to problems that I haven't thought of, or is there an easier way >that I'm missing? Anyone who told me that it is bad practice to use an exec for a web cgi would also be met with a request to show proof of that claim.