Commit 07fef81b authored by William A. Rowe Jr's avatar William A. Rowe Jr
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  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.


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@@ -75,8 +75,21 @@ content-encoding, content-language, and MIME-type (content-type) of documents. 
The directive <a href="#typesconfig">TypesConfig</a> 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

<code>http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types</code>

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 <a href="#addtype">AddType</a> directives as needed.



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<EM>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.</EM>



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