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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13986 remove default MIME-type Summary: remove default MIME-type Product: Apache httpd-1.3 Version: HEAD Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: core AssignedTo: [email protected] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because of the text/plain default, Mozilla's been having a lot of problems dealing with content from Apache servers in a standards-compliant way. It seems that a large number of server admins are not setting the proper extension -> MIME-type mappings, and all sorts of content gets sent as text/plain.* By the HTTP spec, Mozilla is forbidden any guessing if a content-type header is sent, and so it *must* treat these files as plaintext, which is inappropriate. Basically, if the content-type is really unknown, it should not be set so that the recipient may perform detection. http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/rfc1945.html#BodyType http://www.servlets.com/rfcs/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2.1 * This is probably because other browsers, including MSIE, do not adhere to this requirement, so server admins don't (and in some cases refuse to) set the appropriate mappings to override text/plain. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
