Question for htaccess experts

Saturday, April 07, 2007 by Dave Winer.

I have some documents in a site with no suffixes, like this: 

http://somesite.com/utah
http://somesite.com/georgia
http://somesite.com/arizona

And I want to redirect them to: 

http://somesite.com/utah.html
http://somesite.com/georgia.html
http://somesite.com/arizona.html

I tried the obvious thing in an htaccess file: 

Redirect /utah http://somesite.com/utah.html

But it generates an infinite series of redirects. Makes sense when you think about it -- Apache is not exactly redirecting urls, but patterns. 

I thought maybe RedirectMatch would be the right way to go, but it's not clicking. 

How do you handle a situation like this?? 

Please post a comment if you know. Thanks!!