[thelist] ssi on windows 2000?

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 6 09:20:47 CDT 2001


> Do all included files need to be named .inc or .asp to perform ssi on
> an NT/200 platform??

no, you can control what files get passed through the ASP parser 
in the MMC (or whatever the 2k equivalent is called)...

keep in mind, though, that changing those extensions can prove to 
be problematic... for instance, if you make the server parse every 
.html file, it can slow things down quite a bit, and you may find you 
need plain ol' static files...

also, the ASP engine doesn't parse .inc files, they are treated as 
plaintext... this can be bad if people know the paths to your include 
files, since it can expose your source code... instead, consider 
naming them .asp so they get parsed even if a user knows the 
path... it's better to display an error than your source code to some 
wanna-be hacker...

you can get some additional info about includes at:
http://evolt.org/article/Including_Files_in_ASP/17/1344/index.html





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