Introduction to the Apache Web Server - ApacheCon

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14.1.2 Standard handlers
The following are the standard handlers - that is, those handlers that are defined by modules that come
standard with Apache.
default-handler
Defined by the Apache core (rather than by an extension module) this is the handler that deals with requests
for files. This is the default manner of dealing with a URL request if there is nothing else special about it.
This is the handler that was in use in the URL mapping section yesterday.
send-as-is
Defined by mod asis, the send-as-is handler sends a file without prefacing it with any headers. It is
assumed that the file itself will contain the headers as part of the content of the file.
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Location: http://xyz.abc.com/foo/bar.html
Content-type: text/html
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Joe’s site.
The send-as-is handler is enabled using the AddHandler directive:
AddHandler send-as-is .asis
It is customary to name these pages something.asis, however, in the case of the above example, when
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