web page suffixes

[stevie21]

Files ending html, asp, php are all familiar but what are .do and .go files?

[fo3nix]

I've never seen either.
Neither has http://www.fileinfo.net/

[wideboy]

Not found at:-

http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatG/0,289943,sid9,00.html

Where did you get such files. Are they files or sites?

[stevie21]

I'm not making it up : I think I've seen the .go on this site (AB) although that might be a big fat lie.

https://photocard.abbey.com/StarskyWeb/start.do
I think this bit of the site was programmed using (among others) C#

[wideboy]

That page looks very dodgy!

[stevie21]

Dodgy how? That it's not genuinely part of Abbey's site (I can guarantee it is) or just badly designed (I can guarantee that is too!).
Anyway, I give up trying to find the .go page - any ideas why the page above has the .do suffix?

[wideboy]

do for 'dodgy'? No, serously, it was asking for very specific personal details (hopefully masked with **** when typed in?

[stevie21]

Bah! I thought I was getting more insight. I'm not too concerned what the "do" stands for : I just want to know what language it represents.

Abbey aren't bright enough to asterix out these personal details. From the url you can see that you start off on Abbey's site (before this page) but by the time you get here or a few pages in, your details are being sent to a 3rd party company (possibly in New Zealand, as it happens). Totally safe and secure. Abbey and technology don't really go together.

[fo3nix]

looks to me like Abbey (and maybe others, but I've never seen it) are using that extension for their HTML Post Form system.

i.e. when you submit a form on a web page, the server handles it with some file. I'm guessing they label these files .do. and something else .go.

you can name files anything you like. its very easy to do this on a webserver too (for apache, use some rules in the .htaccess file).

[stevie21]

So it's just like sending the form content to a cgi file/script?
I thought it was a bit more wind swept and interesting than that and represented them using a hitherto rare, exotic and comparatively dormant (or even new) language.

[fo3nix]

No, I doubt it.

You most commonly see it getting sent to a file such as "calculate.php" or something of that nature. But you can call it what you like.

If you wanted to, you could make the server treat .jpeg files as .php files, and vice versa (there are some good reasons to do this).

[stevie21]

I'm not doubting that there are good reasons for this jpeg/php tomfoolery, but what are they?

[stevie21]

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/home/home.do

[fo3nix]

one idea is to have a custom jpg.

so you could have a file called "random-image.jpg"

now in that file (just call it that, dont make it an actual jpg image in some image editing program), write some php (or other language code) that generates some sort of jpg image.. maybe a jpg with random quotes or something.

then all you have to do is tell the server to treat that image (or maybe all images in a certain directory) as a php file so that it'll process it as php.

now you can link that jpg file anywhere you like, and get random text. a very simple, pointless use, but the possibilties are endless.

[Jay99]

Hi,

I help run http://www.dotwhat.net/ and we have entries for both of these file extensions.

Hope it helps someone at some point, sorry for reviving an old post.