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Old November 2nd, 2005, 07:00 PM
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Question Dynamically Generated .html pages?

I was just wondering, how do some websites that use databases and such have all pages that have .html extensions?

For example: http://www.tagged.com/

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Old November 2nd, 2005, 07:41 PM
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I was just wondering, how do some websites that use databases and such have all pages that have .html extensions?

For example: http://www.tagged.com/

What, you mean like these forums too? Check out the current url:

http://forums.aspfree.com/t85877/s.html

That's the same thing as:

http://forums.aspfree.com/showthread.php?t=85877

Clever, eh? It's done like that to make urls more search engine
friendly [for SEO purposes], usings Apache's mod_rewrite engine.

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-...ngine-Friendly/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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Yep, web spiders tend to not like `?` in the URLs that they pick up. The reason, I think, has something to do with the spider using too much bandwidth or too many links to the same page.

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Old November 3rd, 2005, 03:35 AM
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that's weird, their form's action also points to html. probably they
configured their server to execute html files as ASP files, it's
possible via the Internet Services Manager.

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that's weird, their form's action also points to html. probably they
configured their server to execute html files as ASP files, it's
possible via the Internet Services Manager.

I doubt it, that's a pretty strange thing to do - processing HTML
through as ASP, the server overhead would be tremendous.

I'd guess it's just using the mod_rewrite to mask the tech behind
the site [php/python/perl/whatever]...

You never know though, you might be right, and they might be
processing HTML as ASP, but it's a very odd thing to do...

--Jon.

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is there mod_rewrite for IIS too? if not, you can check
the server used to run the website and know for sure...

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is there mod_rewrite for IIS too? if not, you can check
the server used to run the website and know for sure...

Nothing built in, apparently. Although you can get third party
software at a price...

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Nothing built in, apparently. Although you can get third party
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so I guess this will remain a mystery...

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so I guess this will remain a mystery...

Nah, check the src code:
Code:
    //only called once - when the page is loaded
    function initAlerts() { 
        // BEGIN REGION - auto generated by PHP/Smarty
        var cdArray = new Array();
                
        var chatArray = new Array();
                
        var numInvites = 0;
        var numMessages = 0;
        var hasProps = false;
        var hasTags = false;
        
        
        // END REGION - auto generated by PHP/Smarty
        
        displayAlerts(numInvites, numMessages, hasProps, hasTags, cdArray,
                chatArray);
        
        setInterval('refreshAlerts()', 80000);
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what's that Smarty??

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