ASP Best Practices

Extensions for Included Files

For consistency, use include files in order to make specific information available to more than one referring page (changes to include files are distributed to all the pages that include them).

Standards:

.inc—for large amounts of data with client-side scripting

.txt—for text-formatted data files without scripting

Do not use .inc for pages containing server-side scripts. If a user manages to display them, any business rules in the scripts will be exposed. Use the .asp extension for all pages containing scripting, or for which scripting is planned, in order to avoid displaying proprietary information coded as scripts in ASP pages.