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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Brian Behlendorf <br...@hyperreal.org> on 1997/12/08 19:17:56 UTC
don't believe in mod_magic
There's a part in mod_mime_magic which goes:
# There are tests to ascmagic.c to cope with mail and news.
0 string Relay-Version: message/rfc822 7bit
0 string #!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
0 string N#!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
0 string Forward\ to message/rfc822 7bit
0 string Pipe\ to message/rfc822 7bit
0 string Return-Path: message/rfc822 7bit
0 string Path: message/news 8bit
0 string Xref: message/news 8bit
0 string From: message/rfc822 7bit
0 string Article message/news 8bit
Unfortunately there are user-agents out there which don't grok those two
MIME formats, and interpret it as an error (IE 4.0 for example). Any
problems with commenting them out?
Brian
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"it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig brian@hyperreal.org
Re: don't believe in mod_magic
Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.
Yeah, but let's say someone sets up a site with DefaultType
application/binary, suddenly mod_mime_magic is a lot less useful because
it's returning application/binary for lots of things that are certainly
text/something.
Dean
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> I don't entirely agree; by doing so you're semantically saying any message
> matching those rules should be text/plain, which I don't believe is true.
> Let's say someone setting up a Russian web site sets DefaultType to be
> "text/plain;charset=KOI8". Then any message matching those patterns would
> be changed to simply "text/plain". Hmm...
>
> Brian
>
> At 11:24 AM 12/8/97 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> >Then I think they should be changed to text/plain...
> >
> >Dean
> >
> >On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Commenting them out leaves it up to the DefaultType (in our conf files
> >> text/plain), unless they match some other pattern from the magic file.
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >> At 10:53 AM 12/8/97 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> >> >Why not change them to text/plain ? Or is that the same thing commenting
> >> >them out would accomplish?
> >> >
> >> >Dean
> >> >
> >> >On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> There's a part in mod_mime_magic which goes:
> >> >>
> >> >> # There are tests to ascmagic.c to cope with mail and news.
> >> >> 0 string Relay-Version: message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string #!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string N#!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string Forward\ to message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string Pipe\ to message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string Return-Path: message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string Path: message/news 8bit
> >> >> 0 string Xref: message/news 8bit
> >> >> 0 string From: message/rfc822 7bit
> >> >> 0 string Article message/news 8bit
> >> >>
> >> >> Unfortunately there are user-agents out there which don't grok those two
> >> >> MIME formats, and interpret it as an error (IE 4.0 for example). Any
> >> >> problems with commenting them out?
> >> >>
> >> >> Brian
>
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> "it's a big world, with lots of records to play." - sig brian@organic.com
>
Re: don't believe in mod_magic
Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
I don't entirely agree; by doing so you're semantically saying any message
matching those rules should be text/plain, which I don't believe is true.
Let's say someone setting up a Russian web site sets DefaultType to be
"text/plain;charset=KOI8". Then any message matching those patterns would
be changed to simply "text/plain". Hmm...
Brian
At 11:24 AM 12/8/97 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>Then I think they should be changed to text/plain...
>
>Dean
>
>On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
>>
>> Commenting them out leaves it up to the DefaultType (in our conf files
>> text/plain), unless they match some other pattern from the magic file.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> At 10:53 AM 12/8/97 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>> >Why not change them to text/plain ? Or is that the same thing commenting
>> >them out would accomplish?
>> >
>> >Dean
>> >
>> >On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> There's a part in mod_mime_magic which goes:
>> >>
>> >> # There are tests to ascmagic.c to cope with mail and news.
>> >> 0 string Relay-Version: message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string #!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string N#!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string Forward\ to message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string Pipe\ to message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string Return-Path: message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string Path: message/news 8bit
>> >> 0 string Xref: message/news 8bit
>> >> 0 string From: message/rfc822 7bit
>> >> 0 string Article message/news 8bit
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately there are user-agents out there which don't grok those two
>> >> MIME formats, and interpret it as an error (IE 4.0 for example). Any
>> >> problems with commenting them out?
>> >>
>> >> Brian
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Re: don't believe in mod_magic
Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.
Then I think they should be changed to text/plain...
Dean
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> Commenting them out leaves it up to the DefaultType (in our conf files
> text/plain), unless they match some other pattern from the magic file.
>
> Brian
>
> At 10:53 AM 12/8/97 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> >Why not change them to text/plain ? Or is that the same thing commenting
> >them out would accomplish?
> >
> >Dean
> >
> >On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> There's a part in mod_mime_magic which goes:
> >>
> >> # There are tests to ascmagic.c to cope with mail and news.
> >> 0 string Relay-Version: message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string #!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string N#!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string Forward\ to message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string Pipe\ to message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string Return-Path: message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string Path: message/news 8bit
> >> 0 string Xref: message/news 8bit
> >> 0 string From: message/rfc822 7bit
> >> 0 string Article message/news 8bit
> >>
> >> Unfortunately there are user-agents out there which don't grok those two
> >> MIME formats, and interpret it as an error (IE 4.0 for example). Any
> >> problems with commenting them out?
> >>
> >> Brian
> >>
> >>
> >> --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
> >> "it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig brian@hyperreal.org
> >>
> >
> >
> --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
> "it's a big world, with lots of records to play." - sig brian@organic.com
>
Re: don't believe in mod_magic
Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
Commenting them out leaves it up to the DefaultType (in our conf files
text/plain), unless they match some other pattern from the magic file.
Brian
At 10:53 AM 12/8/97 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote:
>Why not change them to text/plain ? Or is that the same thing commenting
>them out would accomplish?
>
>Dean
>
>On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> There's a part in mod_mime_magic which goes:
>>
>> # There are tests to ascmagic.c to cope with mail and news.
>> 0 string Relay-Version: message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string #!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string N#!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string Forward\ to message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string Pipe\ to message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string Return-Path: message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string Path: message/news 8bit
>> 0 string Xref: message/news 8bit
>> 0 string From: message/rfc822 7bit
>> 0 string Article message/news 8bit
>>
>> Unfortunately there are user-agents out there which don't grok those two
>> MIME formats, and interpret it as an error (IE 4.0 for example). Any
>> problems with commenting them out?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
>> "it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig brian@hyperreal.org
>>
>
>
--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
"it's a big world, with lots of records to play." - sig brian@organic.com
Re: don't believe in mod_magic
Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.
Why not change them to text/plain ? Or is that the same thing commenting
them out would accomplish?
Dean
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
>
> There's a part in mod_mime_magic which goes:
>
> # There are tests to ascmagic.c to cope with mail and news.
> 0 string Relay-Version: message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string #!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string N#!\ rnews message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string Forward\ to message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string Pipe\ to message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string Return-Path: message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string Path: message/news 8bit
> 0 string Xref: message/news 8bit
> 0 string From: message/rfc822 7bit
> 0 string Article message/news 8bit
>
> Unfortunately there are user-agents out there which don't grok those two
> MIME formats, and interpret it as an error (IE 4.0 for example). Any
> problems with commenting them out?
>
> Brian
>
>
> --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
> "it's a big world, with lots of records to play."-sig brian@hyperreal.org
>