Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4: SSI and html-files

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Revd leonard payne wrote:
> 
> Embedded in this piece of advice was a real gem of information.
> 
> I routinely suffix all my files with .shtml - just in case in happen to use
> SSI's - and I wonder why its a little slow. - It's because every file is
> being parsed  - deep joy!

Here's another little gem, files that are are dynamic, eg .shtml, have
different headers when the server sends them to the client, the server
doesn't know how big they are, and it doesn't know when they expire, so
it marks them uncachable, and many machines that would normally save the
data won't, and many search engines will refuse to index the site...
(Why save an index to data that possibly changes every time someone
requests a page)

gsh