Re: .htm vs. .html

Somebody else jump in here if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty much dead sure that
if a visitor *specifically* request any (public) file from your website by
typing in the URL, they'll get it. Regardless of whether it has a .htm or a
.html extension.

HTH,
Fuzzy


At 07:08 PM 2/6/01 -0500, 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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