From: William A. Rowe Jr Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 04:07:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Finish a thought. I'm hoping this drops the number of obnoxous requests X-Git-Tag: 2.0.26~347 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab4336311c8f4e8835eb253667620a8a9fd20f7c;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git Finish a thought. I'm hoping this drops the number of obnoxous requests to bugs for mime.types changes back down to mostly valid requests. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@90867 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html index 89e6d3de4d5..8a776232c15 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html @@ -75,8 +75,21 @@ content-encoding, content-language, and MIME-type (content-type) of documents. The directive TypesConfig is used to specify a file which also maps extensions onto MIME types. Most administrators use the provided mime.types file which associates common filename extensions -with IANA registered content types. This simplifies the httpd.conf file -by providing the +with IANA registered content types. The current list is maintained at +http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types +although it may be mirrored elsewhere). This simplifies the httpd.conf file +by providing the majority of media-type definitions, and they may be +overriden by AddType directives as needed. + +

+ +Please do not send requests to the Apache httpd Project to add any new +entries in the distributed mime.types file unless (1) they are already +registered with IANA, and (2) they use widely accepted, non-conflicting +filename extensions across platforms. category/x-subtype requests will +be automatically rejected, as will any new two-letter extensions as they +will likely conflict later with the already crowded language and character +set namespace.