CGI Programming on the World Wide Web By Shishir Gundavaram 1st Edition March 1996 This book is out of print, but it has been made available online through the O'Reilly Open Books Project.

Chapter 5 Server Side Includes

 

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5.9 Common Errors

There are two common errors that you can make when using Server Side Includes. First, you should not forget the "#" sign:

<!--echo var="REMOTE_USER"-->

Second, do not add extra spaces between the "-" sign and the "#" character:

<!-- #echo var="REMOTE_USER"-->

If you make either of these two mistakes, the server will not give you an error; rather it will treat the whole expression as an HTML comment.

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Tailoring SSI Output		Hypermedia Documents

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