Well, it could just be an abbreviation for something that Wal-Mart people understand. Otherwise, it could really be anything, but I'm assuming it means g______ server page or something like that. It really doesn't matter what it is though, they could whatever they like as a file extension, just as long as they get the server to recognize it.
GSP File?
Well, can't you create your own extensions? www.levels4you.com use their own .l4y extension... I don't know much about "hiding PHP" but maybe they are just hiding file extensions and have files named homepage.nn85.php?
*shrugs & goes back to the noob corner
Whatever it is, I'm not wildly confident in it. All I get is
We're sorry!
The Walmart.com Web site is temporarily closed. Please visit again soon.
NetNerd85 wrote:Well, can't you create your own extensions? www.levels4you.com use their own .l4y extension... I don't know much about "hiding PHP" but maybe they are just hiding file extensions and have files named homepage.nn85.php?
I was going to suggest something of a similar nature. Like the fact that flickr uses .gne as their extensions
I guess I was under the assumption that you were supposed to register a filetype with if you created a new one.. but now that I think about it, I guess there would be no way to monitor or enforce that rule. Hmm.. interesting.
piersk wrote:I was going to suggest something of a similar nature. Like the fact that flickr uses .gne as their extensions
Actually, even with CPanel you can create custom handlers. Yeah, there is a file extension on my server called .vsk (that parses PHP) but I'm not vain enough to actually use it (but just vain enough to create it). Plus, somebody already registered it. Plus, I have no real use for it.
If it helps any, its being hosted off an IIS v6.0 box. For some reason, I'm leaning towards "gsp" being an internal modification of the "asp" extension (but I could be very wrong).
Again, with IIS it's possible to control the extension and make it anything other than the usual "asp"
it's really easy to use a different extension... with apache, just add the .ext to be parsed as .php and let apache know this is a web-type file and let 'er buck, it's more involved that that, but it's done all the time
I guess perhaps I don't understand why they would want to mask the technology they use by assigning a funky extension. What's the purpose in that? So K-Mart doesn't get any bright ideas?
I would say that if you mask the technology it's harder to see what server you're running and so the security is upped, but considering how easy it is to find out what the server is running thanks to sites such as netcraft it doesn't really matter
Technically, you don't even need Netcraft. Just take a look at the response headers being returned to your browser.
Masking provides security through obscurity. It could be that Walmart is using a custom built or propriety IIS module which looks for .GSP files and does something special with them (maybe like what Zope does with python script objects). By naming the files .GSP, it could make someone's life at Walmart a little easier by keeping all the files straight. Or yes, they're looking to mess with K-Mart.
looks like they aren't the only ones using it...
This google search (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=index+filetype%3Agsp&btnG=Search) shows a few sites with files like that.
One clue may be found on this page:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:m6A_o1Zvbz8J:www.bagus.org/index.gsp%3FdA%3D1434+index+filetype:gsp&hl=en
Seems like they are explaining it as some sort of dynamic menu page content type thing.
Still no luck on actually finding what it is though.
AstroTeg wrote:If it helps any, its being hosted off an IIS v6.0 box. For some reason, I'm leaning towards "gsp" being an internal modification of the "asp" extension (but I could be very wrong).
It's possible that you are; if you got your IIS info from netcraft. Note that netcraft also ID's the OS as "Solaris 8", and note the fact that IIS generally doesn't run on that platform :eek:
However, the server does return that string in the HTTP Header, so who knows?
But, I think I found the answer; they're "Groovy Server Pages", an IBM technology that "sits on"? Java:
So, do I win a prize? 
dalecosp wrote:So, do I win a prize?
Yes you should for that! 
Seeing as how IBM is in bed with Zend, I would have expected them to save the moniker for something PHP-related. :glare: Perhaps they will come up with something better for PHP, such as "The Shiznit Server Pages" or "Dyn-o-mite Server Pages".
And that, my friends, is why the W3C recommends technology-independent URIs....
(A file extension for when IBM and Zend collaborate on PHP? What file extension would you use for "Zend-IBM-PHP"?)
Weedpacket wrote:And that, my friends, is why the W3C recommends technology-independent URIs....
(A file extension for when IBM and Zend collaborate on PHP? What file extension would you use for "Zend-IBM-PHP"?)
.tgz ? 
bubblenut wrote:.tgz ?
Which, being interpreted, means "the groovy shiZnit" pages??
Elizabeth ... since I'm not a celebrity, I'll settle for your gratitude as heretofore expressed. Or you can buy BuzzLY/Goldbug one for me . . . I really need something else to do with my time than the 15~20 minutes that one took . . . :eek:
Weedpacket wrote:(A file extension for when IBM and Zend collaborate on PHP? What file extension would you use for "Zend-IBM-PHP"?)
How about PHP-IBM-Zend?