Thanks to all who offered their help!

I just got off the phone with my ISP and have found out the following information - your mileage may vary. :)

I already knew that browsers look for index.html when you type in www.myhost.com

What I found out was ( and forgive me if this is commmon knowledge ) that failing the index.html page, the next in the sequence is index.htm, then index.*.

So to make an index page that changes every time the browser opens it, I can do a CGI script to accomplish this and just name it index.cgi and the browser will take care of the rest.

Like I said above, your mileage may vary.

p.s. Can someone point me to a node on how to update an original post? Thanks!

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...

Update 5/30/02

After playing around with this last night I discovered that my provider does NOT handle a .pl file well. No matter what your permissions are, it wants to send you the source.

However changing the extention to CGI worked just fine.

In reply to Update: Automatic execution of a CGI program on a web page besides a counter by Popcorn Dave
in thread Automatic execution of a CGI program on a web page besides a counter by Popcorn Dave

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