The following reply was made to PR mod_dir/455; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lars Eilebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mod_dir/455: AddIconByEncoding does not work?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 12:24:35 -0600 (MDT)
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Lars Eilebrecht wrote:
> I tested with lots of different AddIconByEndcoding entries, but
> it seems that the entries are simply ignored (eg. the icons or alt
> texts don't appear in a directory index).
>
> Examples:
> AddIconByEncoding (DOC,/icons/layout.gif) pdf html
> AddIconByEncoding (TXT,/icons/tex.gif) x-tex
>
> I commented out all other AddIcon* directives in srm.conf, but
> all AddIconByEncoding directives I tested are ignored, except one
> "AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-gzip" and I'm
> really wondering why this works but the others not...
>
> AddIconByType and AddIcon works without any problems.
>
> (Yes, fancy indexing was activated during my tests. :-))
Umm... html, etc. are not normally encodings ("Content-Encoding") but
rather are media types ("Content-Type"). You may have:
AddEncoding x-compress Z
AddEncoding x-gzip gz
in your config file, which explains why x-gzip may work because it is an
encoding. AddIconByType, as the default config file has, is what you want
for mime types.
Is there some errant documentation somewhere that suggests
AddIconByEncoding should work for anything other than Content-Encodings?
