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.