Many websites serve HTML content that is generated by a program instead of just sending a file.
You can determine the web technology used by looking at the file extension in the URLs.
| Extension | Technology |
|---|---|
| AFP | Microsoft Active FoxPro |
| ASP | Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) |
| ASPX | Microsoft ASP.NET |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface: this is program that will run on the host server, so it can be in
written in anything that the server supports. Commonly used for C/C++, Perl and TCL.
It is also commonly a /cgi-bin/ directory and no extension. |
| CFM | Adobe ColdFusion |
| CFC | Adobe ColdFusion MX Component |
| DO | Apache Struts |
| JSP, JSPX | Java Server Pages |
| LASSO | Lasso |
| MV | MivaScript |
| PHP | PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor |
| PL | Perl |
| PY | Python |
| SHTML, SHTM, SHM | Server-side includes |
| VM | Apache Velocity |