On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:30:31 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This change implements a simple web server that can be run on the 
>> command-line with `java -m jdk.httpserver`.
>> 
>> This is facilitated by adding an entry point for the `jdk.httpserver` 
>> module, an implementation class whose main method is run when the above 
>> command is executed. This is the first such module entry point in the JDK.
>> 
>> The server is a minimal HTTP server that serves the static files of a given 
>> directory, similar to existing alternatives on other platforms and 
>> convenient for testing, development, and debugging.
>> 
>> Additionally, a small API is introduced for programmatic creation and 
>> customization.
>> 
>> Testing: tier1-3.
>
> src/java.base/windows/classes/sun/net/www/content-types.properties line 30:
> 
>> 28: application/octet-stream: \
>> 29:  description=Generic Binary Stream;\
>> 30:  file_extensions=.saveme,.dump,.hqx,.arc,.obj,.lib,.bin,.exe,.gz
> 
> Hello Julia,
> Is this an intentional change, to remove the mapping of `.zip` to 
> `application/octet-stream`? In a later part of this patch there's a commented 
> out test `testCommonExtensions` which deals with these extension types and 
> that has a link to 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types
>  which states that `.zip` should be mapped to `application/zip` instead of 
> the current `application/octet-stream`, so I'm guessing this changed line is 
> intentional.
> 
> On an unrelated note, the unix variant of this file 
> `src/java.base/unix/classes/sun/net/www/content-types.properties` 
> interestingly uses `.z` for `.zip`? Commit history on that file doesn't 
> provide any hint on whether that is intentional either.

I think you can ignore my comment above. I went and checked the 
`content-types.properties` in their current state for both unix and windows and 
they already have a separate `application/zip` which is mapped to `.zip`. So I 
think this above change shouldn't impact anything.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5505

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