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Typing of resources

When the server returns a resource to a browser, it inserts the MIME content type of the resource in the HTTP headers (MIME is described in Section ). For HTML documents this will be expressed as:

    Content-type: text/html

Resource types, such as images, plain text, and so on, are also indicated in this way. The typing of resources is generally configurable. Section describes the CERN and NCSA server configuration mechanisms.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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