Re: Personal web servers???

From: Jon Steiger (jon@dakota-truck.net)
Date: Wed Apr 05 2000 - 01:52:26 EDT


At 06:09 PM 4/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Netscape does NOT require the extension to be .html. That's just the
>standard, accepted way of doing it everywhere outside the Microsoft
>world.

    Its not really a Microsoft thing though, technically speaking... The
only reason .html vs .htm came up is that back in the Windows 3.x days, DOS
had a maximum limit of 3 characters in a file extension, thus .html had to
be .htm on those systems. The browser shouldn't care though; if you have
the <html> tag in the source, it should figure out that its an HTML file
regardless of the extension. (Some may figure it out without the
tag.) The extension is more of a server dependent thing as opposed to
client. (If you have an extension besides .htm or .html on the server, the
web server itself might tell the browser that the content is something
besides text/html. Lots of variables. :-)

                                               -Jon-

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