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What are SSI (Server Side Includes)?


Server Side Includes (SSI) are a type of HTML comment that directs the web server to dynamically generate data for the web page whenever it is requested.

SSI applied to an HTML document provides interactive real-time features
such as echoing current time, conditional execution based on logical comparisons,
querying or updating a database, sending an e-mail, etc., with no programming or CGI
scripts.

SSI consist of a special sequence of characters (tokens) on an HTML page. As the
page is sent from the HTTP server to the requesting client, the page is scanned by the
server for these special tokens. When a token is found, the server interprets the data in the token and performs an action based on the token data.

1&1 supports SSI in the Business and Developer Shared Hosting plans as well as
Managed Servers.

Find out more...
What packages support SSI?
SSI on Windows Server.
A few examples.

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