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Rick Portugal
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I understand what the web-inf directory is for. But why did they call it that? What does "inf" stand for?

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Jeanne Boyarsky
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Rick,
I'm not positive, but I think it's "web information". It has the same meaning as the META-INF in a jar file - a directory that contains information about the rest of the archive.


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