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A lot of people, myself included, would throw in fake extensions to throw off the script kiddies. It seemed like everybody wanted to be one at some point and throwing up an ASPX extension on a php powered site made the scans stand out that much more. Plus it funny :)



Oh, now this makes me want to use /cgi-bin/signup.pl for my next webapp.




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