I've come across an intranet site within my organisation in which all the 

asp pages have been named as .htm.

The site is currently running within a non-standard environment and I'm 

keen to move it to a standard environment but will encounter extra work in 

converting the files so that the correct mime types are used.



My question is can anyone shed any light on why somebody would give .asp 

files a .htm file extension? What could the possible technical advantages 

be? or any other benefit?

I have heard before that some developers name all their ".asp" 

files ".htm" (and configure IIS to treat the ".htm" files as ".asp" files) 

because search engines had a problem with .asp files.



Looking through Google or Altavista search results, this doesn't seem to 

be the case. Does anyone know whether there is any truth in this? 



If your intranet was feeding your internet site, that could be one 

explanation.





> I've come across an intranet site within my organisation in which all 

the 

> asp pages have been named as .htm.

> The site is currently running within a non-standard environment and I'm 

> keen to move it to a standard environment but will encounter extra work 

in 

> converting the files so that the correct mime types are used.

> 

> My question is can anyone shed any light on why somebody would give .asp 

> files a .htm file extension? What could the possible technical 

advantages 

> be? or any other benefit?

> 

> I've come across an intranet site within my organisation in which all the

> asp pages have been named as .htm.





People sometimes do this if they are from CGI backgrounds and want to

execute Server Side Includes ..



Chris



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----- Original Message -----

From: "Charlie" <charliedevaney@h...>

To: "asp_discuss" <asp_discuss@p...>

Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:21 PM

Subject: [asp_discuss] Use of .htm extension when coding .asp pages





> The site is currently running within a non-standard environment and I'm

> keen to move it to a standard environment but will encounter extra work in

> converting the files so that the correct mime types are used.

>

> My question is can anyone shed any light on why somebody would give .asp

> files a .htm file extension? What could the possible technical advantages

> be? or any other benefit?

>

>




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