Posted by Rik on 01/03/07 04:17

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(David)
>
>> Does anyone know if all pages in a fairly established site are
>> changed from .htm to .shtml or .php
>
> There's no reason to do that. Cool URIs don't change, so keep the
> .htm.
> If you need some server-side stuff like scripting or SSI you can do
> that even on .htm files.

Parsing every .htm for the change it has some script in it is hardly
elegant.
Go for a 301 redirect. Browsers and search engineds understand that.
--
Rik Wasmus

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