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While I was planning a trip on a railroad website, I noticed the website was rendered by a .exe ( http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe )
My question: is this a CGI script, and if so, isn’t that terribly inefficient?
I mean, every query launches a new thread. Imagine a train gets cancelled, the server would be DDoS’d in no time, no?
You can put anything into a URL structure using URL rewriting, so this could really mean anything. Maybe the planners of the portal preferred
.exeto signify an action; maybe indeed an executable is called via CGI. Chances are it’s a custom-built web server anyway.You’d have to ask the people who built bahn.de’s traffic information for a definitive reply – as far as I know, it’s these guys.