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    32  <a href="../ja/mod/mod_negotiation.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese">&nbsp;ja&nbsp;</a></p>
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    34  <table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Provides for <a href="../content-negotiation.html">content negotiation</a></td></tr>
    35  <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
    36  <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>negotiation_module</td></tr>
    37  <tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_negotiation.c</td></tr></table>
    38  <h3>Summary</h3>
    39  
    40      <p>Content negotiation, or more accurately content selection, is
    41      the selection of the document that best matches the clients
    42      capabilities, from one of several available documents. There
    43      are two implementations of this.</p>
    44  
    45      <ul>
    46        <li>A type map (a file with the handler
    47        <code>type-map</code>) which explicitly lists the files
    48        containing the variants.</li>
    49  
    50        <li>A MultiViews search (enabled by the <code>MultiViews</code>
    51        <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#options">Options</a></code>), where the server does
    52        an implicit filename pattern match, and choose from amongst the
    53        results.</li>
    54      </ul>
    55  </div>
    56  <div id="quickview"><h3>Topics</h3>
    57  <ul id="topics">
    58  <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#typemaps">Type maps</a></li>
    59  <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#multiviews">MultiViews</a></li>
    60  </ul><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
    61  <ul id="toc">
    62  <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#cachenegotiateddocs">CacheNegotiatedDocs</a></li>
    63  <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#forcelanguagepriority">ForceLanguagePriority</a></li>
    64  <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#languagepriority">LanguagePriority</a></li>
    65  </ul>
    66  <h3>See also</h3>
    67  <ul class="seealso">
    68  <li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#options">Options</a></code></li>
    69  <li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html">mod_mime</a></code></li>
    70  <li><a href="../content-negotiation.html">Content
    71  Negotiation</a></li>
    72  <li><a href="../env.html">Environment Variables</a></li>
    73  </ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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    75  <div class="section">
    76  <h2><a name="typemaps" id="typemaps">Type maps</a></h2>
    77      <p>A type map has a format similar to RFC822 mail headers. It
    78      contains document descriptions separated by blank lines, with
    79      lines beginning with a hash character ('#') treated as
    80      comments. A document description consists of several header
    81      records; records may be continued on multiple lines if the
    82      continuation lines start with spaces. The leading space will be
    83      deleted and the lines concatenated. A header record consists of
    84      a keyword name, which always ends in a colon, followed by a
    85      value. Whitespace is allowed between the header name and value,
    86      and between the tokens of value. The headers allowed are: </p>
    87  
    88      <dl>
    89        <dt><code>Content-Encoding:</code></dt>
    90        <dd>The encoding of the file. Apache only recognizes
    91        encodings that are defined by an <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addencoding">AddEncoding</a></code> directive.
    92        This normally includes the encodings <code>x-compress</code>
    93        for compress'd files, and <code>x-gzip</code> for gzip'd
    94        files. The <code>x-</code> prefix is ignored for encoding
    95        comparisons.</dd>
    96  
    97        <dt><code>Content-Language:</code></dt>
    98        <dd>The language(s) of the variant, as an Internet standard
    99        language tag (<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1766.txt">RFC 1766</a>). An example is <code>en</code>,
   100        meaning English. If the variant contains more than one
   101        language, they are separated by a comma.</dd>
   102  
   103        <dt><code>Content-Length:</code></dt>
   104        <dd>The length of the file, in bytes. If this header is not
   105        present, then the actual length of the file is used.</dd>
   106  
   107        <dt><code>Content-Type:</code></dt>
   108  
   109        <dd>
   110          The <a class="glossarylink" href="../glossary.html#mime-type" title="see glossary">MIME media type</a> of
   111          the document, with optional parameters. Parameters are
   112          separated from the media type and from one another by a
   113          semi-colon, with a syntax of <code>name=value</code>. Common
   114          parameters include:
   115  
   116          <dl>
   117            <dt><code>level</code></dt>
   118            <dd>an integer specifying the version of the media type.
   119            For <code>text/html</code> this defaults to 2, otherwise
   120            0.</dd>
   121  
   122            <dt><code>qs</code></dt>
   123            <dd>a floating-point number with a value in the range 0[.000]
   124            to 1[.000], indicating the relative 'quality' of this variant
   125            compared to the other available variants, independent of
   126            the client's capabilities. For example, a jpeg file is
   127            usually of higher source quality than an ascii file if it
   128            is attempting to represent a photograph. However, if the
   129            resource being represented is ascii art, then an ascii
   130            file would have a higher source quality than a jpeg file.
   131            All <code>qs</code> values are therefore specific to a given
   132            resource.</dd>
   133          </dl>
   134  
   135          <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><p><code>
   136            Content-Type: image/jpeg; qs=0.8
   137          </code></p></div>
   138        </dd>
   139  
   140        <dt><code>URI:</code></dt>
   141        <dd>uri of the file containing the variant (of the given
   142        media type, encoded with the given content encoding). These
   143        are interpreted as URLs relative to the map file; they must
   144        be on the same server (!), and they must refer to files to
   145        which the client would be granted access if they were to be
   146        requested directly.</dd>
   147  
   148        <dt><code>Body:</code></dt>
   149        <dd>New in Apache 2.0, the actual content of the resource may
   150        be included in the type-map file using the Body header.  This
   151        header must contain a string that designates a delimiter for
   152        the body content. Then all following lines in the type map
   153        file will be considered part of the resource body until the
   154        delimiter string is found.
   155  
   156        <div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
   157          Body:----xyz----<br />
   158          &lt;html&gt;<br />
   159          &lt;body&gt;<br />
   160          &lt;p&gt;Content of the page.&lt;/p&gt;<br />
   161          &lt;/body&gt;<br />
   162          &lt;/html&gt;<br />
   163          ----xyz----
   164        </code></p></div>
   165        </dd>
   166      </dl>
   167  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
   168  <div class="section">
   169  <h2><a name="multiviews" id="multiviews">MultiViews</a></h2>
   170      <p>A MultiViews search is enabled by the <code>MultiViews</code>
   171      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#options">Options</a></code>. If the server receives a
   172      request for <code>/some/dir/foo</code> and
   173      <code>/some/dir/foo</code> does <em>not</em> exist, then the
   174      server reads the directory looking for all files named
   175      <code>foo.*</code>, and effectively fakes up a type map which
   176      names all those files, assigning them the same media types and
   177      content-encodings it would have if the client had asked for one
   178      of them by name. It then chooses the best match to the client's
   179      requirements, and returns that document.</p>
   180  
   181      <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#multiviewsmatch">MultiViewsMatch</a></code>
   182      directive configures whether Apache will consider files
   183      that do not have content negotiation meta-information assigned
   184      to them when choosing files.</p>
   185  </div>
   186  <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
   187  <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="CacheNegotiatedDocs" id="CacheNegotiatedDocs">CacheNegotiatedDocs</a> <a name="cachenegotiateddocs" id="cachenegotiateddocs">Directive</a></h2>
   188  <table class="directive">
   189  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Allows content-negotiated documents to be 
   190  cached by proxy servers</td></tr>
   191  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>CacheNegotiatedDocs On|Off</code></td></tr>
   192  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>CacheNegotiatedDocs Off</code></td></tr>
   193  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
   194  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
   195  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_negotiation</td></tr>
   196  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>The syntax changed in version 2.0.</td></tr>
   197  </table>
   198      <p>If set, this directive allows content-negotiated documents
   199      to be cached by proxy servers. This could mean that clients
   200      behind those proxys could retrieve versions of the documents
   201      that are not the best match for their abilities, but it will
   202      make caching more efficient.</p>
   203  
   204      <p>This directive only applies to requests which come from
   205      HTTP/1.0 browsers. HTTP/1.1 provides much better control over
   206      the caching of negotiated documents, and this directive has no
   207      effect in responses to HTTP/1.1 requests.</p>
   208  
   209      <p>Prior to version 2.0,
   210      <code class="directive">CacheNegotiatedDocs</code> did not take an
   211      argument; it was turned on by the presence of the directive by
   212      itself.</p>
   213  
   214  </div>
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   216  <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="ForceLanguagePriority" id="ForceLanguagePriority">ForceLanguagePriority</a> <a name="forcelanguagepriority" id="forcelanguagepriority">Directive</a></h2>
   217  <table class="directive">
   218  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Action to take if a single acceptable document is not 
   219  found</td></tr>
   220  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>ForceLanguagePriority None|Prefer|Fallback [Prefer|Fallback]</code></td></tr>
   221  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>ForceLanguagePriority Prefer</code></td></tr>
   222  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
   223  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
   224  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
   225  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_negotiation</td></tr>
   226  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.0.30 and later</td></tr>
   227  </table>
   228      <p>The <code class="directive">ForceLanguagePriority</code> directive uses
   229      the given <code class="directive"><a href="#languagepriority">LanguagePriority</a></code> to satisfy
   230      negotation where the server could otherwise not return a single
   231      matching document.</p>
   232  
   233      <p><code>ForceLanguagePriority Prefer</code> uses
   234      <code>LanguagePriority</code> to serve a one valid result, rather
   235      than returning an HTTP result 300 (MULTIPLE CHOICES) when there
   236      are several equally valid choices.  If the directives below were
   237      given, and the user's <code>Accept-Language</code> header assigned
   238      <code>en</code> and <code>de</code> each as quality <code>.500</code>
   239      (equally acceptable) then the first matching variant, <code>en</code>,
   240      will be served.</p>
   241  
   242      <div class="example"><p><code>
   243        LanguagePriority en fr de<br />
   244        ForceLanguagePriority Prefer
   245      </code></p></div>
   246  
   247      <p><code>ForceLanguagePriority Fallback</code> uses
   248      <code class="directive"><a href="#languagepriority">LanguagePriority</a></code> to
   249      serve a valid result, rather than returning an HTTP result 406
   250      (NOT ACCEPTABLE). If the directives below were given, and the user's
   251      <code>Accept-Language</code> only permitted an <code>es</code>
   252      language response, but such a variant isn't found, then the first
   253      variant from the <code class="directive"><a href="#languagepriority">LanguagePriority</a></code> list below will be served.</p>
   254  
   255      <div class="example"><p><code>
   256        LanguagePriority en fr de<br />
   257        ForceLanguagePriority Fallback
   258      </code></p></div>
   259  
   260      <p>Both options, <code>Prefer</code> and <code>Fallback</code>, may be
   261      specified, so either the first matching variant from <code class="directive"><a href="#languagepriority">LanguagePriority</a></code> will be served if
   262      more than one variant is acceptable, or first available document will
   263      be served if none of the variants matched the client's acceptable list
   264      of languages.</p>
   265  
   266  <h3>See also</h3>
   267  <ul>
   268  <li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addlanguage">AddLanguage</a></code></li>
   269  </ul>
   270  </div>
   271  <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
   272  <div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="LanguagePriority" id="LanguagePriority">LanguagePriority</a> <a name="languagepriority" id="languagepriority">Directive</a></h2>
   273  <table class="directive">
   274  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The precendence of language variants for cases where
   275  the client does not express a preference</td></tr>
   276  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>LanguagePriority <var>MIME-lang</var> [<var>MIME-lang</var>]
   277  ...</code></td></tr>
   278  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
   279  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>FileInfo</td></tr>
   280  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
   281  <tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_negotiation</td></tr>
   282  </table>
   283      <p>The <code class="directive">LanguagePriority</code> sets the precedence
   284      of language variants for the case where the client does not
   285      express a preference, when handling a MultiViews request. The list
   286      of <var>MIME-lang</var> are in order of decreasing preference.</p>
   287  
   288      <div class="example"><h3>Example:</h3><p><code>
   289        LanguagePriority en fr de
   290      </code></p></div>
   291  
   292      <p>For a request for <code>foo.html</code>, where
   293      <code>foo.html.fr</code> and <code>foo.html.de</code> both
   294      existed, but the browser did not express a language preference,
   295      then <code>foo.html.fr</code> would be returned.</p>
   296  
   297      <p>Note that this directive only has an effect if a 'best'
   298      language cannot be determined by any other means or the <code class="directive"><a href="#forcelanguagepriority">ForceLanguagePriority</a></code> directive
   299      is not <code>None</code>. In general, the client determines the
   300      language preference, not the server.</p>
   301  
   302  <h3>See also</h3>
   303  <ul>
   304  <li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addlanguage">AddLanguage</a></code></li>
   305  </ul>
   306  </div>
   307  </div>
   308  <div class="bottomlang">
   309  <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/mod/mod_negotiation.html" title="English">&nbsp;en&nbsp;</a> |
   310  <a href="../ja/mod/mod_negotiation.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese">&nbsp;ja&nbsp;</a></p>
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