>Number: 2847 >Category: config >Synopsis: BMP files display as garbage and when downloaded the file gets >corrupted. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 13 08:10:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.1 >Environment: Apache under both Linux 2.0.30 and NT 4.0. >Description: When clicking on a BMP file "garbage txt" is displayed on screen. After saving the link and looking at it locally, the image is "warped" and the filesize is different than the source. >How-To-Repeat: Put a BMP file onto any Web site running Apache and try viewing it. >Fix: Add the following line to the "mime.types" file:
image/x-MS-bmp bmp It's not really a "bug" but a pretty strange omission that support for BMP files does not come as part of the default Apache install. Granted this may be a Netscape specific mime type (I'm not sure) but it should at least support Netscape and IE... >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
