Re: htm and html extensions

Just view the source of that page and you will be shocked and amazed that
the page even loads.

The site www.usworks.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.

In IIS there is a setting for the default page and for the default
extension.  So you set default page to home, index.  You set default
extension to *.htm and *.html under server settings.

I haven't used IIS in awhile.  I got tired of being hacked both because of
Windows vulnerabilities and IIS vulnerabilities.

As the words of R & L Rasmussen fell from above I was tickled at 2:12 PM
-0400 on 7/18/02:

>Hello,
>I have been exposed to something recently that does not fit my prior
>training.  My wife works for a high-tech firm that has many servers
>addressing a wide range of clients - Internet, not Intranet, around the
>USA.  The firm has dropped all .htm and .html extensions when referring a
>client to a site file.  Check it out at www.usworks.com/jacksonville
>
>Somehow, I was trained that proper file access would require *.htm or
>.html* after "jacksonville."
>
>I have run a few tests on the back-end of my own servers and, sure enough,
>www.my-choice.com/8884360 will access a test page - graphic (clock).  When,
>if ever, did the browsers/URL data access world change to the point where
>no htm or html is required after the server file?  Perhaps it has always
>been this way and I simply assumed htm or html was required for proper file
>access.  Any feedback will be quite helpful.  Incidentally, I sent the
>my-choice link to about 60 people (all browser, OSs, and even AOL folks)
>and all replied stating they could access the clock via my test page.  BTW,
>I'm delighted with this given a venture we are starting, but I want to
>ensure that I am not laboring under some bizarre delusion or freak
>tweak.  Trying to understand?
>TIA
>Ralph Rasmussen

-- 
Sincerely,
Kid Stevens

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Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the decision."
 - Benjamin Franklin

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