[Kinda OT] httpd permissions

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:12:05PM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 26/04/12 15:52, Marco Leise wrote:
[...]
> >As for the extension, that is probably a configuration option of your
> >web server. Search for CGI extensions or .cgi and add .d there.
> 
> Isn't it considered bad practice in modern web design to have _any_
> file extension visible?  Or at least any file extension that hints at
> the underlying software.
> 
> If nothing else, it's bad for future-proofing of URLs.  What happens
> when you switch your site from D to D++ in the year 2025? :-)

File extensions in URLs are a thing of the 90's. Nowadays webserver
technology makes it possible (and desirable) to drop them altogether.
That way, you can implement the initial version of your page as page.pl,
then later change it to page.php when you upgrade, and yet later change
it to page.d, all without affecting your users or links to that page in
the least. If you use something similar to Apache's autoindex, you can
even replace it with page/index.d when you decide that the page needs
some separate subpages, WITHOUT needing to edit URLs all over the place.

(Besides, URL means "*Universal* resource locater": it's not supposed to
change without good reason!)


T

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