The Book of Infinity
Software
www.skarnet.org
The infinity program
infinity is a small program meant to be executed as a CGI.
It will write a HTML page from the Book of Infinity.
Interface
infinity can be run as is, but should be spawned by a Web server
as a CGI program.
What it does
- infinity computes a HTML page from the value of $PATH_INFO
and only $PATH_INFO. The pages contains links to other pages, all involving
the execution of infinity.
- infinity writes that page to stdout, with a <meta>
tag telling crawler robots not to index that page or follow the links.
- Well-behaved robots will follow the instructions and stop immediately.
Bad-behaved robots will ignore the instructions, follow the links, and lose
themselves in forever exploration of the Book.
Notes
- Before installing the Book of Infinity on your server, make sure
you have sufficient horsepower and bandwith to stand the heavy traffic
generated by your preys. The client must be killed, not the
server. I have redesigned infinity so it's as efficient
as possible, but that cannot reduce network traffic.