Help for Meta-Information Files
Use this form to define files for storing meta-information about your server's documents.
Meta-Information Files
The server can include a file's meta-information when responding to requests for the file.
Meta-information describes the file containing a document, not the contents of the document.
For example, meta-information for a file might give the date the file was created and the
date it was last modified.
HTTP recognizes Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) headers.
Some things that MIME header fields can identify include the file type, subtype,
encoding, and content length. Each line of a meta-information file contains a header
field, followed by a colon, and the value of the field. For example:
Last-Modified: Wednesday, 05-Apr-95 20:51:35 GMT
Expires-by: Friday, 30-Jun-95 24:00:00 GMT
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 4577
- Enter the name of a subdirectory in the
Meta-information subdirectory name field.
When responding to a request for a file, the server looks for the corresponding
meta-information file in this subdirectory. The subdirectory must be on the directory
that contains the file.
For example, you might define info as the server's meta-information file
subdirectory. If a client requests a file from the /www directory, the server would look
for the corresponding meta-information file in the /www/info subdirectory.
- Enter a file extension in the Meta-information file extension field.
Include the initial period with the extension name. When responding to a request for a
file, the server looks for the file's meta-information in a file with the same name as the
requested file but with the added extension specified on this field.
The file must be in the meta-information subdirectory.
For example, you might define .hed as the server's meta-information file
extension. If a client requests a file named newhome.html from the /www
directory, the server would look for the corresponding meta-information in a file named
newhome.html.hed. If the meta-information subdirectory is info, the server
would look for newhome.html.hed in the /www/info subdirectory.
- If you want to use the changes you make to the form, select the Apply
button. If you want to go back to the values that were on the form before you made
changes, select the Reset button.
