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The counter element is interesting: <img src="http://count.freeyellow.com/cgi-shl/count.exe?df=tamaleking.dat&dd=A http://count.freeyellow.com/cgi-shl/coun
by piker 6y ago
The counter element is interesting:
<img src="http://count.freeyellow.com/cgi-shl/count.exe?df=tamaleking.dat&dd=A http://count.freeyellow.com/cgi-shl/count.exe?df=tamaleking...." alt="**" nosave="" width="100" height="30">
Interesting in that it calls a windows executable. Haven't seen that before, although it of course makes sense in cgi-bin.
Also interesting are the headers returned by Apache:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:34:42 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 14792
Connection: keep-alive
Server: Apache/2
Last-Modified: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:02:49 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=3600
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Etag: "39c8-49b0c90420040"
Expires: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:31:11 GMT
Age: 211
- VWWHFSfQ 6y agolooks like pretty standard headers
- phnofive 6y agoI think it’s the last modified field...
- TonyTrapp 6y agoIt maybe used to be a Windows executable (or any other platform using the .exe extension), but it probably isn't these days - but of course they cannot simply move the script to a different place because it would break all existing counters. You can still occasionally see this on some websites with old infrastructure or infrastructure that has grown over the years. For example if you book a train ticket in Germany through Deutsche Bahn, it will go through bin/query.exe!
- jaywalk 6y agoJudging by the 404 error, I'd say that it's definitely not a Windows executable or anything else.
- netsharc 6y agoYour mention of Deutsche Bahn reminds me of how their first online timetable was some guy's email address, he extracted data from their CD-ROM, and created a service that periodically fetched his e-mails, parsed them (the timetable query had to have a particular syntax), processed the routes, and sent replies to the e-mails. It ran on a (IIRC) 486 in his student apartment. I wish I could link you to this story, sadly Google nowadays can give you train timetables, but it no longer cares what words you enter in a search query, it just thinks I'm looking for the schedule information of train services around me.
- mattowen_uk 6y agoHaving done this back in the day with Apache on Windows NT 4 Server... 'cgi' is a basic stdin/stdout formatting standard that almost any command line utility can be written to accommodate. In this case, the 'count.exe' would be tracking request counts and returning (via stdout) a dynamically built GIF image of the total number of visitors. Crude, but quite popular during the Web 1.0 days. In fact, the code would have been so simple, that count.exe on Windows and 'count' on Linux would have been the same thing.