output from CGI scripts, and byte range responses do not have
this header.</p>
<hr/><h2><aname="DefaultType">DefaultType</a><aname="defaulttype">Directive</a></h2><tablebgcolor="#cccccc"border="0"cellspacing="0"cellpadding="1"><tr><td><tablebgcolor="#ffffff"><tr><td><strong>Description: </strong></td><td>Sets the MIME content-type that will be sent if the
server cannot determine a type in any other way</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></td><td>DefaultType <em>MIME-type</em></td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></td><td><code>DefaultType text/html</code></td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></td><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></td><td>FileInfo</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></td><td>Core</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></td><td>core</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
server cannot determine a type in any other way</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></td><td>DefaultType <em>MIME-type</em></td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></td><td><code>DefaultType text/plain</code></td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></td><td>server config, virtual host, directory, .htaccess</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></td><td>FileInfo</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></td><td>Core</td></tr><tr><td><aclass="help"href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></td><td>core</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>
<p>There will be times when the server is asked to provide a
document whose type cannot be determined by its MIME types