Using IFrames to redirect for search engines

[ep90]

I want to change some of my files to .asp from .html. I do not have access to the.htaccess file so can not do a 301 redirect.

Having browsed this forum, a META tag redirect does not seem like a good idea as its not search engine friendly.

How about creating an iframe inside the original .html file. The iframe fills the screen and displays the .asp file. Will this work with search engines?

Thanks for any advice

[ogletree]

If you are on a MS machine there will not be a .htaccess file. If there was one you would have access to it. All you have to do is create one. It is a file the resides in the same directory as your web files. You can run ASP on .html files. You just need to tell the server to do it.

[ep90]

I am not sure if my host allows sites to create an htaccess file?

[edited by: caveman at 9:14 pm (utc) on April 28, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed specifics, per TOS, and edited for clarity. [/edit]

[ogletree]

I just went to their site and it said they support full htaccess functionality. It is very easy to test create one put something in there like

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

create a page called 404.html and see if it works.