Hi Stefan, Stefan Fritsch <s...@sfritsch.de> writes:
> On Thursday, 2 March 2017 16:15:45 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Apache 2 does not send *any* Content-Type header for plaintext files >> any more, > > With "any more", do you mean that this is a regression, i.e. did it work in > an > earlier version? If yes, which version? The DefaultType directive which Thorsten mentioned ceased working in Apache 2.3.x as per https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#defaulttype > On Friday, 3 March 2017 12:28:17 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Dominik George wrote: >> > Apache uses /etc/mime.types to translate extensions into mime types, >> > which, in my eyes, is a design flaw, because it is a 1:n mapping used by >> >> I believe this system to be horridly flawed anyway… I mean, where >> should Apache know the correct MIME type from? > > If the defaults don't suite you, you have to configure the mime types > manually. > In general, no Content-Type header is much better than a wrong Content-Type > header. So, not having any default for no file extension seems > reasonable. While I agree in principle, there is a downside in practice: wget currently crashes when the header is absent and gzip compression is used: https://bugs.debian.org/880542 -- Best regards, Michael
