[thelist] Standard File Extensions

[deke]

On 11 Mar 2002 at 8:10, Beau Hartshorne posted a message which said:

> One of the posters made the comment that for some reason, several search
> engines would index his ".htm" pages as ".html" pages. So when users
> found a page on his site and tried to click through, they would end up
> with a 404.

I think most users automatically assume that it's HTML instead of HTM,
and you'd get a lot of *human* errors, too.

Anyone who uses HTM as the extension probably ought to routinely put a
RedirectMatch directive in all his .htaccess files to map requests for
HTML files to the HTM equivalent.

deke




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