It's not necessary (at least with Apache and Xitami) to have "?" as the CGI parameter delimiter - for example some Wiki clones (Wiki, Twiki, search Freshmeat for it) use some feature of Apache that allows to insert the script in the middle of the url and the rest of the url path passed as the first parameter (like http://www.nowhere.com/view.pl/01/0101/ ). This would trick spiders into crawling your site, but maybe you should consider making a direct submission/update to spiders instead of having them crawling your site. I don't know if this is actually possible, but ebay.de shows up quite up-to-date on google.com.

In reply to Using a question mark is not necessary for CGI by Corion
in thread Perl solutions for large web sites? by Anonymous Monk

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