[Systems] Sugar Labs mirror: MIME type (Content-Type) configuration

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 24 July 2011 21:15, Sascha Silbe <silbe at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Dear mirror administrators,
>
> issues reported by users prompted us to check the MIME type
> (Content-Type) of the files on all of our mirrors. We discovered that
> your servers are publishing incorrect types; this can cause problems
> that are hard for users to understand and / or work around.
>
> Sugar uses a number of custom MIME types. One of them
> (application/vnd.olpc-sugar) has been registered with the IANA [1], but
> for others we haven't filed applications yet. Currently in use are:
>
> MIME type                               file extension
> application/vnd.olpc-sugar              .xo
> application/vnd.olpc-content            .xol
> application/vnd.olpc-journal-entry      .xoj
>
>
> We'd prefer a mechanism to automatically propagate additional MIME types
> to your mirror (e.g. a file containing Apache AddType [2] directives),
> but the above types are the most important ones right now.
>
> Sascha
>
> [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.olpc-sugar
> [2] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html

I sent the request to AARNET (mirror.aarnet.edu.au), and their reply is:

"I have done the mime changes as requested.  We won't allow the
automatic propagation of mime types so if you can let us know when you
need them added we will look into it."

If there are changes, please let me know.

Cheers,
Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
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