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A comment on Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?.

Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by xylophone on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:21AM (#21146611)
How about exe in the URL? I can only imagine whats going on behind the scenes. https://www.example.com/searchUtility.exe?a=1
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by rescbr on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:31AM (#21146711)
Compiled language CGI running on IIS. Unusual, but not that weird.

Probably an old setup, nowadays the .exe would be hidden with a rewrite rule and you would be none the wiser.

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