[thelist] RE: servers (was .lasso)

[Andrew I. Jones]

> 1. security issues? Any server can be compromised if isn't
> properly secured, if all of the proper measures are taken NT is
> plenty safe. and 2. server includes? Yes you can.

  The thing to find out, though, is whether NT can be 
configured to handle SSI Extended Directives. They're 
available in Apache, but I've never seen them elsewhere. They 
let you do all sorts of nifty things, like IF/ELSE functions and 
passing variables between pages.

  If you're coding by hand, they're great for making 
comprehensive header and footer inserts because you can 
pass customized info (page title, etc.) from the parent 
document to the header file, instead of breaking the header 
into two files or limiting your use of a single header file.