User friendly URLs; masking the "file extension"

As part of an exercise to make URL's more user friendly I am wondering
about the best way to remove the "file extension" from the displayed
URL.

I want to be able to use <http://host.invalid/resource> type URL's
whilst the actual resource is named <http://host.invalid/resource.htm>.
Clicking the first example URL should produce
<http://host.invalid/resource> in the address bar, not redirect to
<http://host.invalid/resource.htm>.

I develop on Windows and upload to a Linux server, I upload a mirror of
my dev directory, I want to retain the ".htm" end of the file name (file
extension on Windows).

I've read that this can be done using Multiviews/Content negotiation,
I'm wondering if this is the best way from a performance and setup &
maintenance perspective. If so, does anyone have an example of how to do
this?

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Spartanicus

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Spartanicus wrote:

> As part of an exercise to make URL's more user friendly I am wondering
> about the best way to remove the "file extension" from the displayed
> URL.

In your .htaccess file:

Options +Multiviews