Hi Brian,
On Friday 03 September 2010, Brian White wrote:
I'm being petitioned quite strongly to re-add types for gzipped
files to the /etc/mime.types file. I originally removed those
types from that file because they caused Apache to work
incorrectly, namely that Apache would then send a foo.html.gz file
as type=application/x-gzip instead of
type=text/html;encoding=gzip.
If I were to add these types back, what havoc might that wreak on
current and previous releases of Apache?
nowadays (since 2.2.15 IIRC) it's possible in Apache to disable
specific types that come from /etc/mime.types. Therefore it is always
possible to fix any breakage by changing Apache's configuration. The
current default configuration already sets type=application/x-gzip. I
just would have to change the comments in the config file on how to
change that to content-encoding gzip. Therefore from an Apache point
of view, there is no problem with this change. But I don't know how
other web servers like lighttpd and nginx handle this.
In any case, I ask you to wait with a possible change until squeeze is
released. It may cause subtle breakage in many places. And having
different configurations in testing and unstable will make it harder
to debug problems, and for no good reason.
Cheers,
Stefan
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