Explain the function of "Content-type: text/html." What will happen if this line is missing?

Question

Explain the function of "Content-type: text/html." What will happen if this line is missing?

Answer 1

You cant able to see the output ..

the page will be blank while you are running it

Answer 2

It tells the browser that this page consists of text or html (as opposed to an image, a video, or a music file)



If this line is missing, most browsers will assume that the page is an html page and display it correctly. However some (older) browsers might open a "Save File As" dialog box instead of displaying the page.

Answer 3

This is a HTTP response to a request and sets the mime type for decoding.

You browser needs to know if it is decoding a picture, programing code, HTML, picture etc..... so the data following the Content directive will be formatted into the respective code.