How do I configure my web server with the correct MIME types to serve WML?
When you access a HTML document using a web browser, the Web Server tells the browser what kind of document it should expect to get back. This is done using a technology known as MIME (Multimedia Internet Mail Extensions). Your PC will have a long list of “MIME types” stored on it, since there must be a corresponding MIME type for every type of file format (images, sounds, word processed documents etc). This association is made on the filename extension, for example .gif is a filename extension for a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) image, which are ubiquitous on the Web. If you opened a GIF image on your computer, a specific application could then be used to open it, such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro etc. The MIME type for a GIF image is image/gif.
