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http://web.archive.org/web/19971022011842/www.viaweb.com/cgi-bin/master/EDITOR/cgi-bin/ownacct http://web.archive.org/web/19971022011842/www.viaweb.com/cgi-bin/

by volida 20y ago

http://web.archive.org/web/19971022011842/www.viaweb.com/cgi-bin/master/EDITOR/cgi-bin/ownacct http://web.archive.org/web/19971022011842/www.viaweb.com/cgi-bin/master/EDITOR/cgi-bin/ownacct the html forms submit to /x like YC.news do!

pg 20y ago
We put a gratuitous cgi-bin in the urls to throw off potential competitors, so they wouldn't guess how our software worked. Not sure if any were even sophisticated enough to wonder about that, in retrospect.
- nostrademons 20y ago
  Would you recommend a similar tactic now?
  - jwecker 20y ago
    yah dude, put .asp or make it look like a java based server. Even .php would probably work nicely that way.