Re: Custom HTTP Header size limit

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From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:44:49 -0800

No, you will need to modify all pages that you wish to decorate with
metadata description for the search engine.

There is no easy way to do this other than physically modifying the pages or
using a content management system that manages this for you.

The web server is a poor place to make this sort of automatic decoration
since you usually want certain rules to apply, and it makes no sense for IIS
to recompute/regenerate this data on every single request.

The description/keyword is supposed to be specific to the web page. Thus,
it should be included as a part of the web page itself, not added by a web
server. 

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"CASystems" <CASystems@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C06BDAF2-8E0C-4ACA-AA35-76F4794B6FE2@microsoft.com...
Thank you.
Should description & keyword be added to all pages on a web site or just
index.htm?
If yes to all pages is there an easy way to add through IIS?
"Kristofer Gafvert" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Search engines does not use the HTTP Header. What you are looking for is
> the HTML Head section. All the HTML is sent as part of the HTTP Body.
>
> Here is a request with a HTTP Header, and HTTP body:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Content-Length: 55
> Content-Type: text/html
> Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:24:38 GMT
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> ETag: "f2ed676ec13c41:4a5"
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:39:43 GMT
>
> <html>
> <body>
> Hello
> </body>
> </html>
>
> The first part (until <html>) is the HTTP header, and that is what you are
> asking for to edit. What you want to edit is the HTML, and add something
> like:
>
> <meta name="description" content="My Description">
>
> Also see:
> http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Kristofer Gafvert
> www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
> www.ilopia.com
>
>
> CASystems wrote:
>
> > I need to post a description and keyword header tag to all page so the
> search
> > engine can use it.
> >
> > Is there a way to enter more than 50 characters into the header value
> field
> > on Custom HTTP header form.
>

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