Info needed (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

not acked.


Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:59:34 +0100 (BST)
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From: Edward Welbourne <ed...@metro1.uit.co.uk>
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Subject: Info needed
Reply-to: Edward Welbourne <ed...@uit.co.uk>

I guess you could call this a documentation bug.

http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/apache/docs/content-negotiation.html

tells us that, having gathered together the candidate files (whether
from the map file or the multi-view), Apache

 ... then chooses the best match to the client's requirements, and
 forwards them along.

[which should, in any case, say `forwards _it_ along'].  However,
there is a total lack of information on how Apache decides what is
the best match.

The documentation tells me that I need to bind some file extensions to
mime types, or provide mime types for a collection of files: what it
doesn't tell me is _what_ mime types to use to achieve the desired
results.

I take it 

text/html; version=3
text/html; version=2 

are two.  Are there any others.

Any help will much appreciated, as is your wonderful HTTP server.
Thank you,

	Eddy.
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