From fd2bdea98eb4e88e6fb6e2654f7f85728d6cf358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andre Malo
The MIME RFC puts it this way:
- --The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a - modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates - what additional content coding has been applied to the - resource, and thus what decoding mechanism must be applied in - order to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type - header field. The Content-Encoding is primarily used to allow - a document to be compressed without losing the identity of - its underlying media type.
+The HTTP/1.1 + RFC, section 14.11 puts it this way:
+ ++The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to + the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional + content codings have been applied to the entity-body, and thus what + decoding mechanisms must be applied in order to obtain the media-type + referenced by the Content-Type header field. Content-Encoding is + primarily used to allow a document to be compressed without losing + the identity of its underlying media type.
By using more than one file extension (see section above about multiple file diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.xml index ba1a1d4c47..f24a41d262 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.xml @@ -115,17 +115,17 @@ module="mod_mime_magic">MimeMagicFile designed for transmitting a binary file in an ASCII (text) format.
-The MIME RFC puts it this way:
- --The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a - modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates - what additional content coding has been applied to the - resource, and thus what decoding mechanism must be applied in - order to obtain the media-type referenced by the Content-Type - header field. The Content-Encoding is primarily used to allow - a document to be compressed without losing the identity of - its underlying media type.
+The HTTP/1.1 + RFC, section 14.11 puts it this way:
+ ++The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to + the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional + content codings have been applied to the entity-body, and thus what + decoding mechanisms must be applied in order to obtain the media-type + referenced by the Content-Type header field. Content-Encoding is + primarily used to allow a document to be compressed without losing + the identity of its underlying media type.