file extensions in URLs?

[Paul Solomon]

When I browse on the internet, it seems that many website pages have URLs that end in a file extension - .htm for example - but others do not. Why is that?

I use FrontPageXprs to create my webpages, and it automatically names all of my pages xxxx.htm. What, if any, are the pluses and minuses of having file extensions in the URL?

[pyro]

If there is not file extention, it means it is pointing to a directory, and has and index.ext (or default.ext) page inside it.

[Paul Solomon]

So basically they all DO have some kind of file extension in there somewhere? I'll have to look more closely. Thanks for the quick response.

[pyro]

Yes, the files will have an extention...