User Guide
Managing Server Content 69
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
103-000133-001
August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
The default is usually Text/Plain, but you should set it to the type of file most
commonly stored on your server. Some common MIME types include the
following:
Parsing the Accept Language Header
When clients contact a server using HTTP, they can send header information
describing the languages they accept. You can configure your server to parse
this language information.
For example, if you store documents in Japanese and English, you could
choose to parse the Accept Language header. When clients that have Japanese
as the Accept Language header contact the server, they receive the Japanese
version of the page. When clients that have English as the Accept Language
header contact the server, they receive the English version.
If you do not support multiple languages, you should not parse the Accept
Language header.
Setting Document Preferences
1 Click Enterprise Web Server servername > Content Management >
Document Preferences.
2 In the Index Filenames field, enter a new index filename.
3 Select the kind of directory indexing you want.
4 Select whether you want users to see a specified home page or an index
file when they access your server. If you select the home page option,
enter the filename of the home page you want in the Index File field.
5 In the Default MIME Type field, enter the default MIME type you want
the server to return if a client accesses a file with an extension that has not
been set up as a MIME type on your server.
6 Select whether or not to parse the accept language header.
7 Click OK > Save and Apply.
text/plain text/html
text/richtext image/tiff
image/jpeg image/gif
application/x-tar application/postscript
application/x-gzip audio/basic