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by wickedwiesel 2317 days ago
In Unix these are shared object libraries.

In this context, I believe .so is the file extension for extensions that can be loaded by web servers during runtime. I think the person in the story was trying to change the Apache2 configuration of all FE servers to load the wanted client library / .so file.

- https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_so.html