Fellow monasterians,

We are all familiar with the conventional Perl file extensions of .pl, .plx, .pm, etc. But what about no extensions? At the risk of being too persistent in trying to have a clean URL and not reveal my "secrets" (see my recent node), is there any thing suggesting "bad practices" to have:

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/login?mode=new

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versus

http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/login.plx?mode=new

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or, as my previous node suggests:

http://www.domain.com/acme/login?mode=new

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Thoughts? Thanks, and I promise not to bring it up again, I just want to establish a standard way of doing this, stick with it, and not have it come back to bite me in the butt later.


—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. " G. K. Chesterton

In reply to Perl file names and extensions by bradcathey

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