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Probably some awful CGI VB6 or C app. I've had to maintain some of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Probably some awful CGI VB6 or C app. I've had to maintain some of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

_joel 9y ago
Still seems to be rendering, despite an HN effect. I wonder if they have an active web admin (doubtful) and if they're wondering why traffic has gone through the roof
michelb 9y ago
Correct, it seems to be something like http://www.ssl.co.uk/indexplus http://www.ssl.co.uk/indexplus Removing the parameters in the url gives a descriptive error page. (Error from Index+ Web Server (hixclient.exe) I've found many museum sites running this.
scruple 9y ago
> awful CGI VB6 or C app. I'm starting to have flashbacks to the various C web CGI applications that I used to develop and maintain now... Awful is not the descriptor that I'd have used. These things were abominations, more so by todays "standards." I don't remember all of the details, but I do distinctly remember that user input was an absolute nightmare to deal with, as well as sending/receiving files. Another nightmarish memory from those days: I once had a co-worker develop the backend to a web CGI in bash (!) and, before I knew he had done it, he was kicking it over the wall for me to finish. I ended up demonstrating why this would cause poor performance and then re-wrote it as C. Yikes. I'm really glad that we've moved beyond all of... that.
- 13of40 9y ago
  > I once had a co-worker develop the backend to a web CGI in bash I did that once with Fortran 77 on Linux back in the 90's, but just as a joke. IIRC, there were some issues, like you could never suppress all of the console output it produced or something. In general, though, I think it's good to still have a lowbrow CGI option if you just want to throw something together.
acheron 9y ago
Are we really at the point where we need to link to Wikipedia to explain what CGI is? I'm feeling older than this fruitcake.

Probably some awful CGI VB6 or C app. I've had to maintain some of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

_joel 9y ago

Still seems to be rendering, despite an HN effect. I wonder if they have an active web admin (doubtful) and if they're wondering why traffic has gone through the roof

michelb 9y ago

Correct, it seems to be something like http://www.ssl.co.uk/indexplus http://www.ssl.co.uk/indexplus Removing the parameters in the url gives a descriptive error page. (Error from Index+ Web Server (hixclient.exe) I've found many museum sites running this.

scruple 9y ago

> awful CGI VB6 or C app. I'm starting to have flashbacks to the various C web CGI applications that I used to develop and maintain now... Awful is not the descriptor that I'd have used. These things were abominations, more so by todays "standards." I don't remember all of the details, but I do distinctly remember that user input was an absolute nightmare to deal with, as well as sending/receiving files. Another nightmarish memory from those days: I once had a co-worker develop the backend to a web CGI in bash (!) and, before I knew he had done it, he was kicking it over the wall for me to finish. I ended up demonstrating why this would cause poor performance and then re-wrote it as C. Yikes. I'm really glad that we've moved beyond all of... that.

13of40 9y ago
> I once had a co-worker develop the backend to a web CGI in bash I did that once with Fortran 77 on Linux back in the 90's, but just as a joke. IIRC, there were some issues, like you could never suppress all of the console output it produced or something. In general, though, I think it's good to still have a lowbrow CGI option if you just want to throw something together.

acheron 9y ago

Are we really at the point where we need to link to Wikipedia to explain what CGI is? I'm feeling older than this fruitcake.