Re: SSI

[Stephanie Wright <swright@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  >
> > > Can I place .shtml files on the server?
> >
> > yes (if you let him)
> >
> > >     After someone's answered, perhaps they could also tell me what
> > > .shtml files actually are?
> >
> > html file that include SSI commands.
> >
> > --
> >      Stephanie J. Wright
>
> Hi again,
>         Thanks for your reply. Do I need to do anything special to allow
> uploading of .shtml files

No, if you allow uploads by that person, they're just regular html 
files with two differences, they have a different suffix and they 
contain SSI commands.

>  or are they simply detected when called from a
> browser?

SSI stands for server side includes, so what's special about these 
files is that the server knows (based on the suffix) that it has to 
process these files *before* sending 'em to the browser. The server 
is doing the include file, or the echo of date or time or whatever 
SSI commands have been included.

With regular html files (and most other files served), the server 
doesn't change the file in any way, what gets sent to the browser is 
exactly the same as the file that exists on the server. With SSI, or 
other dynamic web pages, the server is parsing the file and only 
sends the output from the commands.

So, your ".shtml" file might include a line with a command to show 
the date last modified for the file. What's in the file on your 
server includes a line of text that's an SSI command, what gets sent 
to the browser does not include that line, it includes only the 
output substituted for the command line - the date the file was 
modified.


--
    Stephanie J. Wright

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