[thelist] How do they do that?

[Chris Blessing]

I believe a lot of places are parsing HTML files as ASP/PHP/what-have-you
files.  They just choose to keep the .html or .htm extensions.  Not sure
what the driving force is behind that, but it _is_ late right now and I'm
awfully tired. :)

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> A great deal of large, corporate websites who blatantly have
> content management systems in place seem to now use
> flat files instead of the usual ?page=734327434&la=qy234y24 crap
> that screws up search engines.
>
> This may seem like a very niaive question but what sort of system
> are they using to create this?
>
> Does the CMS churn out flat html pages as soon as the edits are
> made or what??? really confused and the answer is
> probably really simple ;-)
>
> Cheers guys
>
> Dan