Using EXE's on the internet

[ZeeMan]

I am a Visual Basic, RealBASIC and QBasic engineer as well as an ASP specialist but one thing I cannot figure out is how they have sites that use exe's to produce dynamic sites with urls like "site.com/dir/sub-dir/app.exe?page=123&etc=blah".
I don't know how to do this but I would like to learn how.

[AdamGundry]

The executable is a normal one and can be written in pretty much any programming language that has standard input/output support. (If I remember correctly, Visual Basic has problems in this area. I'm not sure about the other two - it's been a very long time since I last used QBasic.) It is based around Common Gateway Interface (http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/) (CGI), though usually toolkits are available to simplify the process.

Adam