[8666] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Which header field to use for entity author/contact.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Franks)
Wed Jul 19 23:06:31 1995
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 22:00:45 -0500
From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
To: heaney@cambridge.scr.slb.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9507191458.AA19413@cambridge.scr.slb.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@www10.w3.org
In article <9507191458.AA19413@cambridge.scr.slb.com> you write:
>
>P.S. The HTML draft clearly states that the server MAY read the document
><HEAD> to generate header fields. Do any servers currently do this?
>(I'm reasonably certain the CERN httpd does not - although the meta
>data file can be used to the same end).
>
The WN server reads the <head> of any HTML document at the time that
document is entered in the per directory database of served documents.
It extracts the title, expiration, keywords and any http-equiv fields
and creates the appropriate HTTP headers.
John Franks
