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.htm and .html: Differences?
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Einstein47
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Not anymore. However when the web was new (pre Win95), Microsoft didn't support file types of more than 3 chars. So all the Unix world was using .html, Windows 3.1 had to use .htm. And the world adapted to handle both extensions.
If you administer a web server, you will see both extentions in the list for type HTML. Or you could be sneaky and change how certain types are handled (one company I worked for changed the .html extension to be like a .jsp so that the users wouldn't know that they were being directed to a JSP site.)
Someone may be able to give you a more solid explination, but in a nutshell, that is that. Einstein47
(Love is like PI - natural, irrational, endless, and very important.)
If you administer a web server, you will see both extentions in the list for type HTML. Or you could be sneaky and change how certain types are handled (one company I worked for changed the .html extension to be like a .jsp so that the users wouldn't know that they were being directed to a JSP site.)
Someone may be able to give you a more solid explination, but in a nutshell, that is that. Einstein47
(Love is like PI - natural, irrational, endless, and very important.)
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