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I've modified my .htaccess file to allow access to html files without having to include the extension on the end, for example:

www.mysite.com/document

directs to

www.mysite.com/document.html

However, when I want to link to pages within my site using something like <a href="page.html"></a> I still get the .html appearing in the URL.

So am I allowed to exclude the extension and leave a link as <a href="page"></a> so that the extension doesn't appear in the browser? Or is there a better way to do it?

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Yes, make your links match your URLs.

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  • Surely this bad practice? If you create a link like <a href="page"></a> how does the browser know how to interpret it? For all it knows, it could be an image file.
    – Anime163
    Commented Jul 6, 2012 at 14:38
  • The browser doesn't know that a .html page is a web page, some are .cgi, some are .php, some are .aspx. The browser requests it, then the server sends the correct MIME type back.
    – cjk
    Commented Jul 6, 2012 at 14:45
  • @Anime163 Definitely No. Browser analyse server response headers (Content-Type in particular) as well as actual file content to identify correct format (display/processing method). It is not a surprise to see on the web file with .jpg extension that in fact is .png file (or other way around). If on my site all pages have .do extension -- how browser should treat them (accordingly to your logic)?
    – LazyOne
    Commented Jul 6, 2012 at 14:45
  • Thanks for the responses! So if I go through my whole site removing the extensions on the links to html files, that's an acceptable way to do it?
    – Anime163
    Commented Jul 6, 2012 at 14:47
  • Yes, that's fine.
    – cjk
    Commented Jul 6, 2012 at 15:13

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