Am 18.07.2012 16:28, schrieb Francois Labreque:
> Le 2012-07-17 10:34, Invisible a écrit :
>> Typically the host sets up a special folder, and any files within it are
>> considered to be CGI scripts in whatever language the server is
>> hard-coded to accept. (Or /maybe/ based on the filename.) Presumably
>> you'd have to find a host that allows executable binaries...
>
> On Apache, it _is_ done by filename.  Since the host has to "chmod" the
> files to make them executable (on *NIX), it probably automagically does
> this on a specific set of file extensions.  so you need to find out what
> extensions are supported.

Comes as a surprise to me, given that it's Unix customary practice to 
identify file types by signatures.

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