DO NOT REPLY [Bug 14095] New: - Change default Content-Type (DefaultType) in default config

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Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 12:22:06 EST

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Change default Content-Type (DefaultType) in default config

           Summary: Change default Content-Type (DefaultType) in default
                    config
           Product: Apache httpd-1.3
           Version: 1.3.23
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Other
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: sbwoodside@yahoo.com

The default config for Content-Type (set by DefaultType) on Mac OS X is text/plain (I can't confirm this on other systems). This is just wrong. Perhaps some time ago, back in the unix everything-is-a-text-file days this made sense, but today, random unknown flies that aren't in the MIME types table are far more likely to be binary data than text/plain.

The new default should be either application/octet-stream (which is in the MIME spec) or application/x-unknown-content-type (which is new to me, but maybe appropriate). application/octet-stream will allow the user agent to save the file or prompt the user to make a decision, while application/x-unknown-content-type will allow the user agent to actually sniff at the data and try to figure out what it is.

This is particularly a problem for Mozilla. see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175848 amongst other bugs (that's for Chimera light-weight mozilla on Mac OS X).

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