IIS NT SSI ??

[bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us]

(Couldn't resist the allure of an entire subject line composed of 
acronyms - it just seemed so 'web' >;)

I'd like to talk to someone with more experience than my own in 
enabling server-side includes (SSI) on an NT 4.0 machine running 
Internet Information Server 4 (IIS).

I understand how the includes work - in fact can make them work 
just fine. The question I have relates to applying an SSI include to 
add a simple header file across an existing web site of several 
thousand pages. Changing all the file names and links to the shtm 
extension just ain't gonna happen.

One can configure the IIS to send all documents with the htm (or 
html) extension through the server side include parser. This works, 
but I wonder what the performance and security issues will be if I 
implement such a change. (I should add that 95% of the pages are 
small static simple text docs generated out of a genealogical 
database of which I don't fully understand the workings - I just use 
the results.)

Advice cheerfully accepted - on or off list.

Thanks


Bobb Menk, Internet Librarian, Lane Memorial Library
Hampton, NH 03842  603-926-3368
bmenk at hampton.lib.nh.us