On 17/11/2013 3:30 p.m., Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > On 17/11/13 04:17, Amos Jeffries wrote: >>> Instead of jumping to change the file name can we*try* to "ping" these >>> >package distributors\maintainers and notify them that there is a >>> meaning >>> >to this file name?(2 pings and then drop the route...)? >> I have been doing so every few months or so for the last ~5 years. Even >> sending patches against their packaging. Some changed, some didn't. >> >> Amos >> > OK then! > It's a strike two for them.
Yes unfortunately. > I do not know exactly what they do think about the naming but it appears > to me that if it was changed in at-least one major\big player then there > is no need to change it. At east one of the others is pointing Squid to load the OS provided mime.table which maps a regexs of file prefix bytes to a content-type and does not include the extra columns Squid is expecting (thus is loads them as ""). I like your idea of moving the file contents into squid.conf proper. Although I dont have any idea how widely it is altered by admin. I will keep thinkign on it a bit before actually doing anything. THank you everybody. Amos
