Name

DefaultType

Synopsis

                  DefaultType
mime-type
Anywhere

The server must inform the client of the content type of the document, so in the event of an unknown type, it uses whatever is specified by the DefaultType directive. For example:

DefaultType image/gif

would be appropriate for a directory that contained many GIF images with file-names missing the .gif extension. Note that this is only used for files that would otherwise not have a type.