From: "Greg Ames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:50 PM
> "Roy T. Fielding" wrote:
> >
> > WTF are we running mod_mime_magic on daedalus?
>
> beats me...I just work here.
>
> Bill Stoddard wrote:
> >
> > Errr.... mod_mime_magic? We should never be going through mmm on daedalus.
>
> I don't know why you say that, unless you mean that for best performance
> we should never be going thru it. We found a bug in m_m_m earlier this
> year, on daedalus. I think it happens because m_m_m is loaded, and our
> default mime.types file doesn't have a mapping for .gz's, or .Z's:
>
> application/x-gtar gtar
> application/x-gzip
> application/x-hdf hdf
>
> Probably the worst thing that would happen if we didn't load m_m_m is
> that autoindex would use different icons for .gz's and .Z's. Big deal.
> I can experiment with it and chat w/Brian, if the consensus is to get it
> off daedalus.
Concensus? We always eat our own dogfood :) If we have cruft that's misconfigured
(causing us to hit m_m_m) that config should be changed. We _should_ be able to
avoid m_m_m on all but brand new, completely unrecognized files.
