Historical software reference — discontinued
SimpleRing
A Perl CGI script formerly distributed by the original PerlCoders company. It is listed here as a historical reference because inbound links and archived indexes still point at its old URLs. It is not available, not supported, and not recommended for use.
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What we know
- Kind
- CGI script
- Era
- Late 1990s – early 2000s CGI era Documented
- Status
- Discontinued. No successor, no maintained fork known to us.
- Distributed by
- The original PerlCoders company, which this publication is not.
02
Former purpose
A dated product-page capture describes a webring administration script with controls for site owners and automatic or manual acceptance of participating sites.
03
Historical URL variants
Both of these resolve to this page with a permanent redirect. They are recorded so the mapping is auditable rather than implicit.
- /main/scripts.html?script=SimpleRing
- /main/scripts.html?script=simplering
04
Known security advisories
No advisory has been located in our sources. Absence of a recorded advisory is not evidence that the code was safe — unmaintained 1990s CGI should be treated as unsafe by default.
05
Modern equivalent pattern
There is no maintained equivalent, and webrings are largely obsolete as a discovery mechanism. If the goal is a curated link circle, a static generated page in a modern framework is the closest safe pattern — no executable endpoint, no shared mutable state, no per-request fork.
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Sources
Dated 2003 Internet Archive capture of the product page.
The capture supports the former purpose. It does not grant republication rights or establish that the program was safe.