Hi,
To add to Bert's explanation, the problem I'd found early on was that if you have a
URL that ends w/out a file extension (eg. http://blah.blah/index.cfm/var1/var2) then
some search engines and many log analyzer programs will want to append a trailing
slash to the URL, because it looks like a directory, not a file. This will throw an
error when requested from the server. Mind you this was like 3 years ago or more that
I saw this-- perhaps newer software is smarter and doesn't want to mindlessly append
the slash (after all, the Web server is supposed to take care of that, if necessary,
when the request comes in).
That's the full story of the .htm at the end. I don't see any reason it can't be .cfm
or whatever. I'd chosen .htm because I use .html for my real static HTML files, and
.htm was a nice way to quickly distinguish the type of request in a log analysis and
ensure search engines wouldn't skip the file. Back then it wasn't guaranteed that a
search engine would index something with a .cfm extension. Sounds like using .cfm is
a great workaround for the problem SP6a introduced with IIS.
Cheers,
-Max
At 9/6/2000 01:54 PM +0100, Bert Dawson wrote:
>its not necessary to add ".htm" - it gets stripped out by
>formURLtoattributes - but, according to the doco:
>
>"Many of the major search engines (like altavista, lycos excite etc)
>usually do not accept URLs with Query_strings in them i.e.
>index.cfm?fuseaction=blah
>But they think they are looking at a static file they will accept the URL.
>If you change
>all of your ? & and = in your URLs to / and add a .htm to the end of the
>link the search
>engines will not skip over that URL, thus giving your site more coverage."
>
>Bert Dawson
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc Funaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 06 September 2000 13:40
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: Stumped on the "new" FB
>>
>>
>> Is it necessary to append the .htm? Why?
>>
>> Thanks again and again!
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
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