config/241: HTTP media parameters cannot be defined with Apache configuration

[Klaus Johannes Rusch <Kl...@atmedia.net>]

>Number:         241
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       HTTP media parameters cannot be defined with Apache configuration
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache (Apache HTTP Project)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 20 05:40:01 1997
>Originator:     KlausRusch@atmedia.net
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.1.1
>Environment:
-
>Description:
The HTTP specs provide for parameters for the Content-Type header:

       media-type     = type "/" subtype *( ";" parameter )

e.g.

       text/html; charset=ISO8859-2

With Apache, only the first blank delimited token is accepted in the AddType directive,
any additional paramters are ignored (actually taken as - rather unlikely - extensions).
Omitting the blank before the parameters breaks some existing browsers.

None of the workarounds - asis documents and Action handlers - is nice as some of the
server's functionality is lost when serving documents that way (such as, SSI, If-Modified-Since).

>How-To-Repeat:
AddType text/html; charset=ISO8859-2  html
>Fix:
As it is very unlikely people have configured extensions like charset=ISO8859-2, a change to
interpret anything with an equals sign as parameter would improve the functionality while
at the same time maintain compatibility pretty well.
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>Audit-Trail:
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