Yes, but if you're in complete control over the server and you're handling the extensions that are on there, it's your call. It's just like any other decision you make. It could be nice and cute and the customer could love it and it could come back to bite you in the butt later, but that's your choice. I personally think that it's a nice little touch to give a customer warm fuzzies. To each his own.
John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -----Original Message----- From: Connie DeCinko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: .html files in cfmx7 Isn't all of this the point of having standards? Could you imagine if everyone named their Word and Excel docs with all kinds of funky file extensions? You'd never know what was what. -----Original Message----- From: Bryan F. Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:20 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: .html files in cfmx7 You're not thinking far enough ahead. It depends on your situation. Here is a real life scenario. Boss comes to you without notice and says that he has a website that you need to setup on the shared server. Now on this shared server the html extensions are mapping through to CF. Now this new site surprisingly has a hundred thousand legal documents written in HTML (remember this is a inherited site) and this site gets lots of traffic. What are you to do, go and change all of your current applications that reference CF content in HTML files? Nope, you don't have time for that and the boss says nope. So what happens is that the entire server gets bogged down because CF is processing files it shouldn't be. Of course it all depends on your situation, but looking ahead will keep scenarios like that from happening. Another point is what happens if you have a failure on your CF server and need to replicate it on a new machine quickly. Are you going to remember all those funky extension mappings you setup? Of course that depends on how well you have everything documented, but really how many people actually do that? Again, it depends on your situation, but keeping it simple is usually the best route. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: .html files in cfmx7 Running html files through the server isn't a bad thing either, necessarily. I agree that if you have a whole bunch of real html files with no cfml in them, then it's just silly to run them through the app server. However, I think a lot of people only have CFML files, but choose to name them with the htm or html file extensions. This doesn't cost anymore than naming them all with .cfm or .foo extensions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:200557 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
