HP e-Commerce / XML director server appliance sa8250 - Users Guide

C H A P T E R 2 HP e-Commerce/XML Director Server Appliance SA8250 User Guide

MIME Content Type Support

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) values in the

“Content-Type” HTTP header are recognized by the SA8250 and

handled accordingly. This is primarily to support multipart and URL

encoded messages which can contain multiple documents in the

message body. The “Content-Type” header has the following format:

Content-Type: <media type>/<media subtype>

[ ; <parameter> ] *

The media type and subtype, the charset parameter, and the

boundary parameter are recognized. The boundary parameter is

only used for multipart messages.

The charset Parameter

The optional charset parameter in the “Content-Type” header is used

to identify the character set used for the XML document. If encoding

is also specified in the prolog of the XML document, the charset

parameter in the “Content-Type” header is used instead. Any

unrecognizable charset or encoding causes the SA8250 to treat the

document as non-XML. Valid character sets include:

• UTF-8

• UTF-16

• US-ASCII

• ISO-8859-1