re shtml

by "Lois Wakeman" <lois(at)lois.co.uk>

Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:55:46 -0000
To:	<catnip(at)ais.net>, "HWG techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

Linda,

.shtml, and .stm, and the unfortunate .sht <G>, are conventional extensions
for pages that use Server Side Includes to add content to the page. They
need to have an extension different from htm(l) so the web server knows it
has to parse them to replace content, rather than just serving them up. I
have a beginners' article here if you are interested:

http://lois.co.uk/web/articles/ssi.shtml

(I use SSI on my site to add the footers, hence the very extension you were
asking about.)

Lois Wakeman
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