send .html page requests to ColdFusion Application Server

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The way that I understand things, web browsers send all thier page requests to the web server, which in turn identifies which pages need to be processed by an application server (i.e. CFM, ASP, etc) and sends the request to the appropriate application server. The application server then processes the request and returns HTML (usually) and the web server then presents this to the client. Is it possible to change a setting so that .html or .htm files are send to coldfusion for processing in addition to .cfml files (in Microsoft IIS)? If so, does anyone know of a howto article out there? Just curious.

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YES and NO, not off the top of my head.

To be a little more expansive. You you can change what extensions get
sent to the app server for processing. Exactly how depends on exactly
which version of IIS and ColdFusion one is running, but basically it is
IIS settings that say what to do with each file extension requested.
Google should turn up something if one is diligent.

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Just found this article about using ISAPI rewrite to accomplish a number of wonderful transformations. Chiefly:

http://host/somepage.html -> http://host/somepage.cfm

and

http://host/somepage/varvalue -> http://host/somepage.cfm?var1=varvalue

http://www.bpurcell.org/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=1070