iTP Secure WebServer System Administrator's Guide (iTPWebSvr 6.0+)

Configuration Directives

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Description

Use the MimeType directive to specify the MIME type that is to be returned to a web

client that requests a file whose extension matches an extension in extension-list.

The returned MIME type informs the web client of the type of the data in the requested

file (for example, text, audio, video, or image). The web client then can present the

data correctly, for example, as audio.

For example, if the server configuration file (httpd.config) contains the directive

MimeType image/gif gif

any URL that refers to a file with .gif as its extension causes the server to return a

MIME type of image/gif with the requested file.

If there are multiple items in the extension-list, use blanks to separate the items.

Use the following MIME types to enable special server features:

application/x-imagemap

This MIME type specifies that the server process the file as an image map.

application/x-httpd-guardian

This MIME type specifies that the server process the file as a CGI program.

You can set as many MimeType directives as you need to specify the type information

for all the file types on your server. MimeType directives for many common file

extensions are supplied with the server in the file conf/mime-types.config.

For a complete list of MIME types supported by the iTP Secure WebServer, see

Example 8-1 on page 8-8. For more information about MIME types, refer to the

Bibliography on page -xxx.

Default

If there is no matching MIME file for a requested file, the server returns the default

MIME type specified by the DefaultType directive.

Negotiation

Syntax

Negotiation { None | Lang | Mult }

Note. The mapping of extensions to MIME types in the configuration file that comes with your

server is in lowercase. Therefore an extension expressed in uppercase, such as .HTML, will be

processed as text unless you explicitly map the uppercase extension to the correct MIME type.