Two Stop Bits | How is Google determining that these pages are PHP3?This is one of the pages fro...

qingcharles 274 days ago | parent

How is Google determining that these pages are PHP3?

This is one of the pages from the SERPs:

https://www.therealjackrussell.com/trial/height.php

But there is nothing in the page or its HTTP headers that would tell you the page is even PHP (except for the extension which might be misleading...)

Lammy 273 days ago
It's just based on the file extension of the URL and nothing more. No way to tell if it's actually PHP behind the scenes.
I see that page in my results too and the one you linked is post-redirect from an older domain that has the php3 URI scheme:
```
  [lammy@popola] curl -I http://www.terrier.com/trial/height.php3
  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:51:07 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
  Content-Length: 258
  Connection: keep-alive
  Location: http://www.theRealJackRussell.com/trial/height.php
```
It is admittedly a little fuzzy since Google can just decide not to honor the `filetype:`/`ext:` operator like they do for so many others. I also included the `lr=lang_en` parameter which limits the results quite a bit, but I figured that would be more enjoyable as a submission to an English-language community like this one :)
Kagi's results are even better but I submitted Google instead due to the paywall: https://kagi.com/search?q=filetype%3Aphp3
The idea for this submission came from this xltronic-dot-com URL when I was looking up some old 808state stuff yesterday, a site which was not listed by either search engine: http://xltronic.com/mb/99108/faq.php3