Apache not sending mime-types

Hello

Well, in the beginning everything was almost in its default state:
1) apache was told to put .php files through php.exe by the ScriptAlias, Action, AddHandler directives
2) there was no mime-type specified for .php in httpd.conf
3)php was sending its default text/html.

But then I had a crazy idea that I should have 2 types of php files - one that outputs text/html and the other that generates XHTML content and therefore outputs application/xhtml+xml. And that's where the problems began.
I set the php.ini's default_mimetype to an empty string, so php stopped sending the content-type header. Then i added the following directive to the httpd.conf

AddType application/xhtml+xml .xphp

The problem is that I do not get any content-type header sent. I guess that Apache does not send content-type header in case when a handler was specified (i.e. expects the handler prog will send that header). Am I right? Or I just cannot see my mistake somewhere?

I am running php 4.2.1 as CGI on Apache 1.3.22 on win2000 server.

And just in case I guessed right, could anyone suggest a solution to this type of problem?

Thanks in advance,
Cyril

first, i suggest not running php as cgi, but as an apache module.

seccond, when apache forwards handling of some file to a cgi or module (like with php files), it doesn't send any content-type headers.

you can send your own headers from php, like so:

header('Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml');



one more note on smth you didn't ask about ;)

IE can't handle this mime type (xhtml), so you should check if web browser accepts xhtml mime type, like so:



have fun ;)

OK. So everything is exactly as I expected. Thanks a lot Zombie. =)