Historical software reference — discontinued

BannerFarm

A Perl CGI script formerly distributed by the original PerlCoders company. It is not available, not supported, and not recommended for use.

What we know

Kind: CGI script
Era: Late 1990s – early 2000s CGI era Unverified
Status: Discontinued. No successor, no maintained fork known to us.
Related work: A Script Rescue piece on this class of script is commissioned for October 2026.

Former purpose

The name suggests a banner rotation and click-counting script of the kind widely deployed before ad networks consolidated.

Reconstructed, not documented Reconstructed from the product name and legacy URL pattern only. Corrections with a source are welcome.

Historical URL variants

/main/scripts.html?script=BannerFarm

Known security advisories

Advisories on record

None located

No advisory and no source code have been located in our evidence. No product-specific claim about storage, redirects or input handling can be made. Those would be review areas only if code is recovered with usable rights.

Modern equivalent pattern

If the requirement is attribution rather than advertising, log server-side against an allow-list of destinations and redirect only to entries on that list. An open redirect is not a feature you get to keep for convenience.

Sources

Source list is empty Everything on this page derives from the legacy URL pattern and the product name.