If necessary, you can pass parameters to a CGI script so that the URL looks "normal". For example: http://www.mysite.com/myscript/param/and/more/params where myscript is your script and everything following it is a sequence of parameters.

The trick is that everything beyond the script name gets stored in an environment variable called PATH_INFO. So you could then do something like this: my ($this, $that, $the, $other) = split '/',$ENV{PATH_INFO}; Just because it looks like a normal path to the user (and presumably to search engines) doesn't mean your code has to interpret it as such.

I should mention that, while I know this technique works on Apache, I'm not certain it's a universal capability.

In reply to Re: what to use create, .html or .cgi by seattlejohn
in thread what to use create, .html or .cgi by andrew

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