Am Friday, dem 05. Oct 2007 schrieb Sylvain Beucler: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:38:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > there seems to be a problem with the server configuration. > > Signature files with the file extension .sig are sent out with the > > wrong MIME type (download area). > > > > The MIME type should be "application/pgp-signature". Some time ago it > > was correct, but now it's broken. > > We didn't change the configuration, but apparently that's done at > http://ftp.gnu.org/ (which also offers a mirror of cvs releases) - but > that's different than dl.sv.gnu.org. > > > To fix the problem please check the file /etc/mime-types on the server > > or add the following line to the configuration file: > > AddType application/pgp-signature .sig > > I checked mime.types from several distros (Gentoo, Debian, Fedora) and > I see no mime type associated with the .sig extension. So by default > most servers do not associate this content-type with .sig's. > > But I guess that doesn't hurt.
Well, while it doesn't "hurt" much to send files with a wrong mime-type. But browsers can be configured to handle some mime-types specifically, so it is generally a good thing to send files with the correct mime-type. And at least on debian the type /application/pgp-signature is known to the browsers. Well it's actually not /etc/mime.types, but apache has it's own mime-types file, which has to be modified. Didn't you update your apache not long ago? -- AKFoerster _______________________________________________ Savannah-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-users
