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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:36 pm
by nickman013
Roja wrote:
nickman013 wrote:Would the php work?
Only if the server is configured to parse html as php.

But doing so means it is a php file, despite the .html extension.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. :)

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:21 am
by Grim...
Roja wrote:
Sami wrote:You might have heard it's better to have say: site/user/1062/
Misleading. For the major search engines, that used to be true, but isn't any longer.
But URL's like that are better for High Geeks to navigate with.

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:12 pm
by a94060
Roja wrote:
nickman013 wrote:Would the php work?
Only if the server is configured to parse html as php.

But doing so means it is a php file, despite the .html extension.

it might be off topic,but

why would there be other extensions(shtml,cfm,asp,etc) if all can be parsed even if they had the extension of and html page? It would seem very redundant

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:57 pm
by Roja
a94060 wrote:it might be off topic,but

why would there be other extensions(shtml,cfm,asp,etc) if all can be parsed even if they had the extension of and html page? It would seem very redundant
Can and should are very different things. The option is provided so that if you are converting a site from one technology to another, you can do so without breaking links. For example, if this forum switched to one powered by Perl, with .pl extensions, every link to every page here would have to be updated. (Including links from other sites).

By default, however, the extensions generally map to the parser that should be used.

It is highly recommended NOT to remap those. Of course, there are situations where it can be extremely useful, so they offer it.