2.2.4.13 vti_metatags

Type: METADICT-STRING-VECTOR

Client Access: Read-only

Applies to: File

Description:

A list of the META element tag settings for the current document, if any.

For HTML files, the server SHOULD maintain a list of META tags in the file. If the server maintains this list, this key MUST be present and MUST have a pair of entries for each META element tag. For META element tags that have the HTTP-EQUIV attribute, the first string in the pair MUST be "HTTP-EQUIV=" followed by the value of the HTTP-EQUIV attribute; the second string in the pair MUST be the value of the CONTENT attribute. See [RFC1866] section 5.2.5 for details on the CONTENT attribute.

For META element tags that have NAME and CONTENT attributes, the first string in the pair MUST be the value of the NAME attribute, and the second string MUST be the value of the CONTENT attribute.

A client MAY alter the way it displays files based on this value.<13>

The server MUST parse the document for this value and MAY cache the value for return to the client on request. The client cannot set this value directly but MAY change it by updating the document.

The server MUST use and maintain its own value rather than use a client-supplied value for this key.

 Examples:
  
 vti_metatags;VR|HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type text/html;\ charset=utf-16
 vti_metatags;VR|HTTP-EQUIV =Content-Language en-us