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Canonical Links for index page

I have my site developed in Miva Merchant which is a eCommerce shopping cart. By default the homepage is called SFNT.html in Miva Merchant just like default.aspx in asp.net.

So I created a base called index.html which is 100% identical to SFNT.html and now i want to add a canonical link to both pages so Google will know to index only one page.

here is my question by default when I type mysite.com, it alwasys displays SFNT page so is it good to add a canonical link to SFNT page like below

<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com/index.html" />

or should I do the opposite and but this in index.html

<link rel="canonical" href="http://mysite.com/index.html" />

but I am using index.html all over the site and no where am i using SFNT.html

Please advice me appreciate it
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ok should I put the domain name as the canonical link in both SFNT and index page sir.

Thanks
That's what I would recommend.

And if possible remove all references to those alternate home pages so the issue actually goes away.
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thanks