On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:
> OK, try this on for size:
Note: I did not commit this yet. I wanted a little feedback before I
did so. Thanks.
>
>
> Index: mod_mime.html
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> RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.44
> diff -u -r1.44 mod_mime.html
> --- mod_mime.html 2001/08/22 02:22:46 1.44
> +++ mod_mime.html 2001/08/25 03:22:07
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
> <body
> bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
> text="#000000"
> - LINK="#0000FF"
> + link="#0000FF"
> vlink="#000080"
> alink="#FF0000"
> >
> @@ -118,7 +118,76 @@
> the "imap-file" handler will be used, and so it will be treated as a
> mod_imap imagemap file.
>
> +<h2><a name="contentencoding">Content encoding</a></h2>
>
> +A file of a particular MIME type can additionally be encoded a
> +particular way to simplify transmission over the Internet. While this
> +usually will refer to compression, such as <samp>gzip</samp>, it can
> +also refer to encryption, such a <samp>pgp</samp> or
> +to an encoding such as UUencoding, which is designed for transmitting
> +a binary file in an ASCII (text) format.<p>
> +
> +The MIME RFC puts it this way:
> +<blockquote>
> +The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to the
> +media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional content
> +coding has been applied to the resource, and thus what decoding mechanism
> +must be applied in order to obtain the media-type referenced by the
> +Content-Type header field. The Content-Encoding is primarily used to allow
> +a document to be compressed without losing the identity of its underlying
> +media type.
> +</blockquote>
> +
> +By using more than one file extension (see
> +<a href="#multipleext">section above about multiple file
> +extensions</a>), you can indicate that a file is of a particular
> +<em>type</em>, and also has a particular <em>encoding</em>.<p>
> +
> +For example, you may have a file which is a Microsoft Word document,
> +which is pkzipped to reduce its size. If the <samp>.doc</samp> extension is
> +associated with the Microsoft Word file type, and the
> +<samp>.zip</samp> extension is associated with the pkzip file
> +encoding, then the file <samp>Resume.doc.zip</samp>would be known to
> +be a pkzip'ed Word document.<p>
> +
> +Apache send a <samp>Content-encoding</samp> header with the resource,
> +in order to tell the client browser about the encoding method.
> +<p>
> +<samp>Content-encoding: pkzip</samp>
> +<p>
> +<h2>Character sets and languages</h2>
> +
> +Finally, in addition to file type, and the file encoding,
> +another important piece of information is
> +what language a particular document is in, and in what character set
> +the file should be displayed. For example, the document might be
> +written in the Vietnamese alphabet, or in Cyrillic, and should be
> +displayed as such. This information, also, is transmitted in MIME
> +headers.<p>
> +
> +While the character set is useful for the browser, in order to
> +determine how to display the document, the language and the
> +character set are also used in the process of content negotiation
> +(See <a href="mod_negotiation.html">mod_negotiation</a>)
> +to determine which document to give to the client, when there are
> +alternative documents in more than one language, or more than
> +one character set.<p>
> +
> +To convey this further information, Apache optionally sends a
> +<samp>Content-Language</samp> header, to specify the language that the
> +document is in, and can append additional information onto the
> +<samp>Content-Type</samp> header to indicate the particular character
> +set that should be used to correctly render the information.
> +
> +<pre>
> +Content-Language: en, fr
> +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2
> +</pre>
> +<p>
> +The language specification is the two-letter abbreviation for the
> +language. The <samp>charset</samp> is the name of the particular
> +character set which should be used.
> +
> <hr>
>
> <h2><a name="addcharset">AddCharset</a> directive</h2>
> @@ -556,7 +625,7 @@
> <code></Files></code></dd>
> </DL>
> <P>
> -This will cause <code>foo.gz</code> to mark as being encoded with the
> +This will cause <code>foo.gz</code> to be marked as being encoded with the
> gzip method, but <code>foo.gz.asc</code> as an unencoded plaintext file.
> </P>
> <p>
>
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