Well, who really types in the "index.htmX" part of a website anyways?  I=
 just type "www.yahoo.com" if that is the website I want, not=
 "www.yahoo.com/index.htm"... or whatever...


phil.


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On 06/02/2001 at 7:08 PM Barbara Money wrote:

>When I was working at a small company doing minor web sites, the boss
>told me to save the main page as both index.html and index.htm. He said
>it was because someone might type in the web page address with the .htm
>extension, and get a 404 error. I did it, but I had all referring links
>to the home page going to the .html file, so if anyone bookmarked it,
>they'd always get the "correct" page. Is there a real point to doing
>this or not?
>
>Barbara Money
>The Essential Image

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