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Server Side Include (SSI) provides server-side post-processing of command and control statements embedded within HTML documents.

Commands
Controls

SSI technology is comparable to the Microsoft™ implementation as Active Server Page™ (ASP); with ASP having a much more robust command and control extension.

Typically, most web server configurations support invocation of SSI function against HTML documents with names ending with ".shtml" or ".shtm". Web servers may optionally be configured to process all HTML pages regardless of file name extension.

SSI statements are in the form of command and control statements. Commands perform a specific function typically returning data. Control statements provide support for conditional logic providing SSI with programmatic capabilities that exceed mere variable replacement capabilities.