That downside could easily be fixed thought the use of mod_rewrite, no? But as you say, it may not be as important for an application...
Pete > One downside is that the URLs are cryptic (actually not so, since >every call has a hint to what is going to be done via the index >file, for eg, index.pl?do=getrecords or index.pl?do=insertrecords, >etc.), but mnemonic URLs are not important in an application anyway.