Once you've included your COBOL object or library in your Web site, you must configure the Web server software to generate the appropriate response header when sending ACUCOBOL-GT object files to the client.
The response header contains a field that specifies the Multiple Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content type. The browser uses this MIME content type to determine what to do with the incoming data. For example, if the content type is "text/html," the browser interprets the incoming data as HTML code. If the content type is "image/gif," the browser interprets the incoming data as a graphic image file and displays the image.
The extension ".acu" has been registered as a MIME content type that is embedded in the Acucorp plug-in. The browser will execute the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in only if the MIME content type field contains "application/vnd.acucobol." For this reason, you must add a new File Extension/MIME Content Type mapping for ".acu" and "application/vnd.acucobol."
Following are procedures for configuring some of the most common Web servers with the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in MIME type. Since every Web server has a different configuration procedure, and since you may have a different version of the Web server software described here or a different operating system, you should refer to your Web server documentation for specific instructions on adding a MIME type.
Web servers that have been described include: O'Reilly WebSite, NT IIS 4.0, Apache Web Server, and Netscape FastTrack.
Because the products described in this section are not Acucorp products, please be aware that Acucorp is unable to support Web server configuration efforts.