Serving SVG on the web

One final note about SVG before we move into more details in the following chapters about the way that SVG interacts with the wider universe of web technology: if you're going to serve SVG on the web, you need to ensure that it's served with the correct content type. Browsers expect SVG to be served with the "image/svg+xml" media type. If you run into problems with SVG images not displaying and you can verify that they exist on the server, it's a good bet to check the headers (using the Network tab of your browser debugger of choice) to see if they're being served correctly. If they're not (for example, if they're text/xml), then you need to set the media type properly. This section outlines how to set the proper media type in common web servers.

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