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Server Side Includes

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Server Side Includes ability is the ability to have your server look through your HTML files for special directives  before sending the file to the client.  These directives can tell the server to insert text into the file, run programs, interact with databases, or send email.  This is all done before the user receives the page, so the user has no way of knowing what changes have been made to the document before he received it.  That means that since the user has no way of knowing programs are being called, they aren't nearly as likely of trying to steal their code or hack into them, unlike scripting where all of the code is available to anyone who wants it.

For detailed information on Server Side Includes, please visit The Server Side Includes Tutorial.

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