Re: m4a and m4b mime types

[Erik Abele]

On 28.01.2006, at 19:45, André Malo wrote:

* Rich Bowen wrote:

Rich Bowen wrote:

With the m4a and m4b file types coming into wider use for podcasting, we need to add them to mime.types. However, when I attempted to do so,

my svn commit failed with a Forbidden. I assume, then, that there's

someone tell me about the process for getting something into
mime.types?

some other procedure for modifying that file that I don't know about. Should I add them as an AddType directive in the default config, or can

As usual, my svn problems (and my cvs problems before them) stem from
ignorance rather than from actual problems. I had a http:// checkout
rather than an https:// one.


file from the IANA or somebody?

The other question remains, I suppose. Is it ok for me to tinker in the mime.types file, or is there some other process by which we obtain that

types there.

As documented in mod_mime docs we have the policy to add only registered

Cheers,
Erik

Yeah, please revert, Rich - the rule is to only add types registered at IANA. It's completely unfair to turn away 'feature requests' which intend to add unregistered types (see Bugzilla) and at the same time arbitrarily add unregistered types by ourselves; somewhere we have to draw the line and well, there it is...

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