Re: doubly defined extensions in mime.types
On 20 Mar 2013, at 03:47, Chris Darroch wrote: Hi -- I notice we have the .wmz and .sub file extentions each defined twice in trunk mime.types: .wmz: application/x-msmetafile, application/x-ms-wmz Couldn't tell you how those arise. Should we really include any non-registered types (x-foo) other than as commented lines indicating what a sysop might want to support? .sub: text/vnd.dvb.subtitle, image/vnd.dvb.subtitle Bizarrely, both appear to be correct: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/vnd.dvb.subtitle http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.dvb.subtitle Anyone here active with IANA? Looks like their mess! Any ideas on which to keep? I'm happy to make the trivial commit, but I don't follow the MIME action closely enough to know whether to go with the older or newer type mapping. Dunno, but whatever happens, that certainly calls for a comment to alert our users to a problem arising elsewhere. Well spotted, Chris! -- Nick Kew
Re: doubly defined extensions in mime.types
On 2013-03-20 11:16, Nick Kew wrote: On 20 Mar 2013, at 03:47, Chris Darroch wrote: Hi -- I notice we have the .wmz and .sub file extentions each defined twice in trunk mime.types: .wmz: application/x-msmetafile, application/x-ms-wmz Couldn't tell you how those arise. Should we really include any non-registered types (x-foo) other than as commented lines indicating what a sysop might want to support? .sub: text/vnd.dvb.subtitle, image/vnd.dvb.subtitle Bizarrely, both appear to be correct: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/vnd.dvb.subtitle http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.dvb.subtitle Anyone here active with IANA? Looks like their mess! ... That's per se not a problem (the same type and have multiple names, and file extension uniqueness is not enforced). But what's weird is that the referenced spec doesn't even mention these types. Best regards, Julian PS: yes, emailed IANA.
doubly defined extensions in mime.types
Hi -- I notice we have the .wmz and .sub file extentions each defined twice in trunk mime.types: .wmz: application/x-msmetafile, application/x-ms-wmz .sub: text/vnd.dvb.subtitle, image/vnd.dvb.subtitle Any ideas on which to keep? I'm happy to make the trivial commit, but I don't follow the MIME action closely enough to know whether to go with the older or newer type mapping. Chris. -- GPG Key ID: 088335A9 GPG Key Fingerprint: 86CD 3297 7493 75BC F820 6715 F54F E648 0883 35A9
