- From: Albert Lunde <Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 13:11:43 -0500 (CDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> The W3C (was CERN) server had the concept of a meta directory. On getting a > request for /foo/bar.html it would search for /foo/.meta/bar.html which could > contain any HTTP geaders (suchg as expires, which is what I used it for). The > advantage of this approach was that if you had bar.html and bar.pdf and so on, > each one could have it's own meta data. I think some features of this sort are also available in optional modules in Apache 1.1 It looks like in Apache one to label charsets, one would add a new MIME type with AddType and edit the mime.types file to add charset as a parameter for that type. I haven't tried this, so I don't know if this works, but if it did the meta directory module would not be needed. Of course what he really needs is info on how to do this for Netscape. Internationalization might be helped significantly if someone with access to various servers could compile a cookbook on how to get them to label language and MIME charset explictly, because I think the software is farther developed that the the default configuations lead people to realize.
Received on Wednesday, 17 July 1996 14:11:51 UTC