RE: [cobalt-developers] Allowin a .exe file to run for a specified site?

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Ervin Tarkhanian wrote:

> HI JP,
> 
> Thanks for the info, I didn't know that you couldn't run .exe on a linux
> box.  For a newbie, that sounds ridiculous, but what do I know.  It's
> strange that I could change the file extension from .exe to .cgi and it
> works fine.  The only problem I'm having is that html forms are generated
> post to .exe url's, and I can't change that.
> 
> I'll look into the AddHandler cgi-wrapper .exe directive.  Thanks again for
> the info.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ervin Tarkhanian

In that case, those are not EXE files, but probably a perl scripts who
were just renamed to work with micro$oft's webserver nicely...

So if those are really not executables, it could be that you can just open
them with a text editor and change the name of script you're casting the
info to, to a .cgi extension.

- shimi.