About magic:
Apache's mod_mime_magic does not support all features that are used in
/usr/share/mime/magic. Using that file would result in error messages.
And from a quick glance at libmagic, it doesn't seem possible to use it
in mod_mime_magic either because it is not thread safe. Therefore
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Apache should tap into the shared-mime-info database
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601501
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According to the configuration of the mime module the default apache2
configuration is already using /etc/mime.types:
#
# TypesConfig points to the file containing the list of mappings from
# filename extension to MIME-type.
#
TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
The mime-support handles
I believe you are wrong. /etc/mime.types is not the shared-mime-info
database I am talking about. I am aware that Apache uses
/etc/mime.types, which only has extension globbing, but no magic or
namespace detection. The shared-mime-info database is cascaded in the
following three directories (only
