Apache Handlers and MIME types

[nsr81]

What's the difference between these two and what are their uses?

Especially what are Apache Handlers good for?

[reuben]

To tell you the truth, I'm not sure what the difference is :D. I guess I should. I always just set it up as a handler. I think that mime types would be if it needed to run on the server. A handler can be used for running cgi outside of the cgi bin, or SSI with html files, etc.

For instance, you can make .html be server-parsed. I think that you can also do the same thing as a mime type though.