Pulling up a file without typing the htm ext.

"Mike" <Mike.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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 > I am wanting to allow the ability for somone to find a file by typing the
path/name in the address bar without having to add the extension .htm. For
example, <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.its.com/department" target="_blank">http://www.its.com/department</a> should bring up the same as if they
entered <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.its.com/department.htm" target="_blank">http://www.its.com/department.htm</a> . What is the best way to handle?
I already have on the Site>Documents the Default.htm and Default.asp. Thanks
for the help


A bit of a kludge, but you could create a custom 404 error page that
redirects to the desired page. This has not been tested:

slash_pos = InStrRev(Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING"),"/")
length = Len(Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING"))
pagename = Right(Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING"),length-slash_pos)
Response.Redirect pagename & ".htm"

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