What web technology is with .do?
July 26, 2009 by Question
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Some web urls end with ".do". For example, "www.company.com/Cart.do". Which web techonology/script is associated with the site?
It will be also nice if you can show how to identify web technologies by looking at the urls other than obvious ones such as php, asp, jsp, etc.
They’re USUALLY Java Servlets, but read on …
You can’t really rely on those last few characters in a URL. For example, I can have all of my pages end in ".do", but have the web server software treat them as ".php". The obvious ones you mention are for pages where the developer doesn’t care if the reader (you) know what kind of page it is.
A lot of web developers use "security by obscurity". They’ll make up file extensions that attempt to "hide" the real extension such as php, asp, etc. That deters would-be hackers since it’s a little harder to exploit websites based on the technology they use for their pages.