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Server side includes

Server side includes are a feature of the NCSA server, whereby other files or the output of commands can be inserted into HTML documents returned by the server. If the feature is enabled and a request is received for a file with a special extension, such as .shtml, the server parses the file, searching for and interpreting directives embedded in HTML comments. These directives are described in Section . Use of server side includes, especially in user directories, has implications for security (see Chapter ).

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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