Sun Microsystems Netscape Enterprise Server, Administrator'S Manual

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Changing the Character Set
Because software virtual servers use the HTTP Host header to direct the user to
the correct page, not all client software works with software virtual servers.
Only client software (such as Netscape Navigator) which supports the HTTP
Host header works. In the previous example, the ISP would set up the
index.html
file in the document root to be an index page that links to all the
virtual servers hosted by the system, so all users could access the home pages.
Note
You cannot use Netscape Navigator version 1.x with software virtual servers.
You should use Netscape Navigator 3.01 or later.
You can set up a software virtual server using the Software Virtual Servers page
in the Content Management tab of the Server Manager.
Changing the Character Set
The character set of a document is determined in part by the language it is
written in. You can override a client’s default character set setting for a
document, a set of documents, or a directory by selecting a resource and
entering a character set for that resource.
Netscape Navigator can use the MIME type
charset
parameter in HTTP to
change its character set. If the server includes this parameter in its response,
Netscape Navigator changes its character set accordingly. The following are
some character set examples:
•
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1
•
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-2022-jp
The
charset
names recognized by Netscape Navigator are specified in RFC
1700 (except for the names that begin with
x-
). These
charset
names include
the following:
Additionally, the following aliases are recognized for
us-ascii
:
•
us-ascii
•
iso-8859-1
•
iso-2022-jp
•
x-sjis
•
x-euc-jp
•
x-mac-roman