On Dec 6, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Zed A. Shaw wrote: > I need people to answer a survey super quick for the next little > release of Mongrel. Basically, nobody ever agrees on mime types, > especially defaults, which is why Mongrel has none and you set your > own. Sometimes people just refuse to set their own and want > Mongrel to do everything for them, but if that happens then people > will complain about the defaults. > > Damned if I do, damned if I don't. > > So, let's put this to the test: > > 1) Should Mongrel support a larger set of default mime types? > 2) What should those defaults be? Post a YAML file somewhere so I > can compare the various answers. > 3) What should be the default mime type if a file doesn't match? > 3a) Where do you get this default? > 4) Would anyone object to Mongrel moving the default mime type list > into a YAML file in the source tree that it loads? **You'd still > be able to override like normal.** > 5) If your favorite web server does it a particular way, do you > actually think this is the real standard or just what that web > server does? > 5a) Do you think this default could be improved on depending on the > situation? Think development vs. production deployments. > > Being the most vocal or ranting will get your votes discounted. > Keep it rational and support it with external evidence, not > rhetoric. People can go round in circles forever over something > this idiotically simple. > > I'm indifferent BTW, just annoyed at more work on mime types so I'd > like to put it to rest once and for all and make whatever seems to > be the most popular as the mongrel policy. > > Finally, if nobody has an opinion then I'll just leave it as-is in > order to get Mongrel 1.0 RC1 out. > > Thanks for your time.
I'm indifferent as well from the userside of things but I suspect that if you did support a larger set it could make your support life easier. If you want something that might be "quick and easy" (and I put that in quotes because I'm talking out of my ass and it might not be easy outside of hey-here-is-a-file) I've just added to apache's default etc/mime.types over the last 2.5 years of textdrive, and if that just copied over and put into a mimetypes.yml A fine default is application/octet-stream or plain text. Regards, Jason _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
