On 2/10/06, Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have just realised that the default version of mime.types which comes with apache distros 1.3 & 2.0 does not contain an extension for the type "application/x-gzip". This means that if you have a file on your site like download.tar.gz, it will be served with "Content-type: application/x-tar" (I guess apache falls back to the .tar when it can't find anything for .gz). To expand slightly on what nick said, this is not defined in mime.types because in many situations you want .gz to represent a content-encoding rather than a content type. Whether windows browsers will deal with that correctly is a whole other story. But it is left for AddEncoding/AddType in httpd.conf to give users the option. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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