Posted by Toby Inkster on 01/25/06 10:20

Mark Parnell wrote:

> The server doesn't actually look at the contents of the file. And this
> goes for *any* file served from a web server, not just web pages.
> Images, PDF files, executables, zip files...they all have their own mime
> type.

Apache looks at the content of certain files to determine their MIME type:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_asis.html

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