[cs631apue] Content Type header Media Types
jphillip
jphillip at stevens.edu
Sat Nov 17 17:45:58 EST 2012
My understanding after reading the RFC is that the Entity-Body is the
name given to the data part of the response message that is the returned
resource. The RFC says we should include a Content-Type when we return
an Entity-Body. So we should always be including an entity header and a
Content-Type field when we successfully find and return the requested
resource. Is that basically correct?
What should be our approach for determining the media type that is
returned in the Content-Type header field? Should our server presume to
know something about the files based on the file extensions or other
file attributes? It looks like there are about a hundred different
media types (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type) so do
we have to code for each one?
Thanks,
Justin
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