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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic.html b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic.html deleted file mode 100644 index a85e6b46b5..0000000000 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime_magic.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,275 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> -<HTML> - <HEAD> - <TITLE>Apache module mod_mime_magic</TITLE> - </HEAD> - <!-- Background white, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> - <BODY - BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" - TEXT="#000000" - LINK="#0000FF" - VLINK="#000080" - ALINK="#FF0000" - > - <DIV ALIGN="CENTER"> - <IMG SRC="../images/sub.gif" ALT="[APACHE DOCUMENTATION]"> - </DIV> - - <H1 align="CENTER">Module mod_mime_magic</H1> - - This module is contained in the mod_mime_magic.c file, and is - an optional extension to the Apache HTTPD server. - It can be used to determine the MIME type of a file by looking at a - few bytes of its contents, the same way the Unix file(1) command works. - To use mod_mime_magic you have to enable the following line in the - server build <TT>Configuration</TT> file: - - <PRE> - AddModule modules/standard/mod_mime_magic.o - </PRE> - - This should be listed <EM>before</EM> mod_mime in the build - <TT>Configuration</TT> file so that it will be used after mod_mime. - mod_mime_magic is intended as a "second line of defense" for cases - mod_mime cannot resolve. - - <H2>Summary</H2> - - This module is derived from a free version of the <CODE>file(1)</CODE> - command for Unix, - which uses "magic numbers" and other hints from a file's contents to - figure out what the contents are. - In the case of this module, - it tries to figure out the MIME type of the file. - <P> - This module active only if the magic file is specified by the - <A HREF="#mimemagicfile"><CODE>MimeMagicFile</CODE></A> directive. - <P> - The contents of the file are plain ASCII text in 4-5 columns. - Blank lines are allowed but ignored. - Commented lines use a hash mark "#". - The remaining lines are parsed for the following columns: - <table border=1> - <tr valign=top> - <TH>Column</TH> - <TH>Description</TH> - </TR> - <tr valign=top> - <TD>1</TD> - <TD>byte number to begin checking from - <BR> - ">" indicates a dependency upon the previous non-">" line</TD> - </TR><tr valign=top> - <TD>2</TD> - <TD>type of data to match - <table border=1> - <TR><TD>byte</TD><TD>single character</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>short</TD><TD>machine-order 16-bit integer</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>long</TD><TD>machine-order 32-bit integer</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>string</TD><TD>arbitrary-length string</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>date</TD><TD>long integer date - (seconds since Unix epoch/1970)</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>beshort</TD><TD>big-endian 16-bit integer</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>belong</TD><TD>big-endian 32-bit integer</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>bedate</TD><TD>big-endian 32-bit integer date</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>leshort</TD><TD>little-endian 16-bit integer</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>lelong</TD><TD>little-endian 32-bit integer</TD></TR> - <TR><TD>ledate</TD><TD>little-endian 32-bit integer date</TD></TR> - </TABLE> - </TD> - </TR><tr valign=top> - <TD>3</TD> - <TD>contents of data to match</TD> - </TR><tr valign=top> - <TD>4</TD> - <TD>MIME type if matched</TD> - </TR><tr valign=top> - <TD>5</TD> - <TD>MIME encoding if matched (optional)</TD> - </TR> - </TABLE> - - <P> - For example, the following magic file lines - would recognize some audio formats. - -<PRE> -# Sun/NeXT audio data -0 string .snd ->12 belong 1 audio/basic ->12 belong 2 audio/basic ->12 belong 3 audio/basic ->12 belong 4 audio/basic ->12 belong 5 audio/basic ->12 belong 6 audio/basic ->12 belong 7 audio/basic ->12 belong 23 audio/x-adpcm -</PRE> - - Or these would recognize the difference between "*.doc" files containing - Microsoft Word or FrameMaker documents. (These are incompatible file - formats which use the same file suffix.) - -<PRE> -# Frame -0 string \<MakerFile application/x-frame -0 string \<MIFFile application/x-frame -0 string \<MakerDictionary application/x-frame -0 string \<MakerScreenFon application/x-frame -0 string \<MML application/x-frame -0 string \<Book application/x-frame -0 string \<Maker application/x-frame - -# MS-Word -0 string \376\067\0\043 application/msword -0 string \320\317\021\340\241\261 application/msword -0 string \333\245-\0\0\0 application/msword -</PRE> - - An optional MIME encoding can be included as a fifth column. - For example, this can recognize gzipped files and set the encoding - for them. - -<PRE> -# gzip (GNU zip, not to be confused with [Info-ZIP/PKWARE] zip archiver) -0 string \037\213 application/octet-stream x-gzip -</PRE> - - <H3>Performance Issues</H3> - - This module is not for every system. If your system is barely keeping - up with its load or if you're performing a web server benchmark, - you may not want to enable this because the processing is not free. - <P> - However, an effort was made to improve the performance of the original - file(1) code to make it fit in a busy web server. - It was designed for a server where there are thousands of users who - publish their own documents. - This is probably very common on intranets. - Many times, it's helpful - if the server can make more intelligent decisions about a file's - contents than the file name allows - ...even if just to reduce the "why doesn't my page work" calls - when users improperly name their own files. - You have to decide if the extra work suits your environment. - <P> - When compiling an Apache server, this module should be at or near the - top of the list of modules in the Configuration file. The modules are - listed in increasing priority so that will mean this one is used only - as a last resort, just like it was designed to. - - <H2>Directives</H2> - <P> - <UL> - <LI><A HREF="#mimemagicfile">MimeMagicFile</A> - </LI> - </UL> - </P> - <HR> - <H2><A NAME="mimemagicfile"> - MimeMagicFile - </A></H2> - <P> - <A - HREF="directive-dict.html#Syntax" - REL="Help" - ><STRONG>Syntax:</STRONG></A> MimeMagicFile <EM>magic-file-name</EM> - <BR> - <A - HREF="directive-dict.html#Default" - REL="Help" - ><STRONG>Default:</STRONG></A> none - <BR> - <A - HREF="directive-dict.html#Context" - REL="Help" - ><STRONG>Context:</STRONG></A> server config, virtual host - <BR> - <A - HREF="directive-dict.html#Status" - REL="Help" - ><STRONG>Status:</STRONG></A> Extension - <BR> - <A - HREF="directive-dict.html#Module" - REL="Help" - ><STRONG>Module:</STRONG></A> mod_mime_magic - <P> - - The <CODE>MimeMagicFile</CODE> directive can be used to enable this module, - the default file is distributed at <CODE>conf/magic</CODE>. - Non-rooted paths are relative to the ServerRoot. Virtual hosts - will use the same file as the main server unless a more specific setting - is used, in which case the more specific setting overrides the main server's - file. - <P> - <HR> - - <H2><A NAME="notes">Notes</A></H2> - - The following notes apply to the mod_mime_magic module and are - included here for compliance with contributors' copyright restrictions - that require their acknowledgment. - -<PRE> -/* - * mod_mime_magic: MIME type lookup via file magic numbers - * Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Cisco Systems, Inc. - * - * This software was submitted by Cisco Systems to the Apache Group in July - * 1997. Future revisions and derivatives of this source code must - * acknowledge Cisco Systems as the original contributor of this module. - * All other licensing and usage conditions are those of the Apache Group. - * - * Some of this code is derived from the free version of the file command - * originally posted to comp.sources.unix. Copyright info for that program - * is included below as required. - * --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - * - Copyright (c) Ian F. Darwin, 1987. Written by Ian F. Darwin. - * - * This software is not subject to any license of the American Telephone and - * Telegraph Company or of the Regents of the University of California. - * - * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose on any - * computer system, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to - * the following restrictions: - * - * 1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of this - * software, no matter how awful, even if they arise from flaws in it. - * - * 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either by - * explicit claim or by omission. Since few users ever read sources, credits - * must appear in the documentation. - * - * 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be - * misrepresented as being the original software. Since few users ever read - * sources, credits must appear in the documentation. - * - * 4. This notice may not be removed or altered. - * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - * - * For compliance with Mr Darwin's terms: this has been very significantly - * modified from the free "file" command. - * - all-in-one file for compilation convenience when moving from one - * version of Apache to the next. - * - Memory allocation is done through the Apache API's pool structure. - * - All functions have had necessary Apache API request or server - * structures passed to them where necessary to call other Apache API - * routines. (<EM>i.e.</EM>, usually for logging, files, or memory allocation in - * itself or a called function.) - * - struct magic has been converted from an array to a single-ended linked - * list because it only grows one record at a time, it's only accessed - * sequentially, and the Apache API has no equivalent of realloc(). - * - Functions have been changed to get their parameters from the server - * configuration instead of globals. (It should be reentrant now but has - * not been tested in a threaded environment.) - * - Places where it used to print results to stdout now saves them in a - * list where they're used to set the MIME type in the Apache request - * record. - * - Command-line flags have been removed since they will never be used here. - * - */ -</PRE> - - </BODY> -</HTML> |