Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/08/07 22:20

Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>
>> Michael Fesser wrote:
>>> There would be much more waste if you have to rename a file from .html
>>> to .php and redirect all old links to the new one.
>> Not at all. A redirect is quite fast and efficient.
>
> While parsing all .html for PHP might waste resources on a single
> machine, a redirect wastes bandwidth (on a high-traffic site this
> counts!) and resources on a thousand machines around the world. Browsers
> have to send another request, search engines and proxys have to update
> their caches.

If you use a proper web server daemon, then you have other options than
force the browser to make a new request.



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//Aho

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