Additional hits on the page will cause the counter to increment with every hit but the date will stay constant. To reset the counter and the date simply requires that this file be deleted. There are several useful scripts there and more to be found at CGI-Resources . CGI scripts can be used to do a lot of different things. Odds are, if you have spent much time on the net, you have already run into lots of CGI scripts without ever being aware of it.
Some sites go so far as to put every page access through a CGI script.
You can often identify these sites by the really strange URLs that show up as the location displayed by your browser. Dave Harasym has told me that we can add scripts to this site when we want. If you have a CGI script that you would like made available, send it to me to check out, and I will have it added to the server and let you know when it is working. Like CGI, SSI lets you put stuff in your HTML pages that turns into something else by the time it gets to the browser. Here is an example.