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in reply to Re: Re: What's in a Name?
in thread What's in a Name?

However, webservers tend to insist on extensions.

That's just a matter of configuration.

Abigail

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Re: Re: What's in a Name?
by maverick (Curate) on May 29, 2002 at 14:55 UTC
    <topic offness="slight">

    How would you configure Apache to be extension-less given that you need things like: 

    AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3  # For PHP
AddType application/x-tar .tgz          # For 'shorthand' tar.gz
AddType text/html .shtml                # For server-parsed

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    to have it send the proper 'content-type' to the broswer?
    </topic>

    As an aside, I completely agree that end user apps should be extensionless. I don't think extensions are a bad thing for webservers. How often do you enter http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=3628 in the location bar of your browser? Odds are you type http://www.perlmonks.org and click 'Newest Nodes' or just have a bookmark...

    /\/\averick
    OmG! They killed tilly! You *bleep*!!

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[d/l]
      http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=3628
      ?
      I find it much quicker typing
      perlmonks.org/?node_id=3628
      ;-)
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