index.htm and index.html

Looking at how and why index.htm is ranked when its a 404

[stinkfoot]

Wondering ... does anyone know how or why when I do a link:www.mysite.com/index.htm and link:www.mysite.com/index.html i get the same results?

Also there seems to be the same PR on both of these even though index.htm doesnt exist.

There also seems to be alot of records in my logs of bot visits to these mystery .htm files.

Now with no links anywhere on the site to anything but .html extensions or /directoryname/ (default no file name) ss this an apache log bug or is googlebot actually accessing these 404's?

[edd1]

Strange, did there used to be a .htm?

[stinkfoot]

Never ... always been up as .html simple static server and robot friendly pages

[kaled]

This is a behavioural quirk of Google. index.ext is treated as a link to the default page for many, if not all extensions. Try using .php and you'll probably get the same result (but with Google, nothing is certain).

Kaled.