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Synopsis: Accept: text/html happily returns application/zip files.
State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
State-Changed-By: pcs
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 15 07:34:12 PST 1998
State-Changed-Why:
Yes, the is unfortunately the current behaviour of Apache.
If you request a document which exists on the disk with
the same name, the negotiation algorithm is *NOT* applied.
In this case, foo.zip exists, so Apache returns is despite
the Accept: header. This is not really correct, so hopefully
a later version of Apache will fix this, by always applying
the Accept* headers to all requests.
In the meantime, the only way to get this to work is to
force mod_negotiation to kick in the negotiation algorithm.
This can be done in one of two ways:
- either enable MultiViews (Options +Multi), then request
the URL without the extension (e.g. GET /foo HTTP/1.0).
This is a performance implication because now Apache
will do a search for files called /foo.* to perform
the negotiation
or
- enable "type-map" files (AddHandle type-map var), then
create a type-map for (say) resource foo - create a file
called foo.var containing
URI: z.zip
Content-Type: application/zip
Now make requests for /foo.var instead of /foo.zip.
This is documented in /manual/content-negotiation.html on any
Apache mirror site.
Paul
