Web server MIME types (was: Fedora Extras Development Package Report)

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Tue Apr 12 21:58:28 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 00:28 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 01:55 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > If you see a build error then you should check out the logs located at:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/extras/development/build-logs/
> 
> Files that end in .rpm.log on the server have a MIME type of
> application/x-rpm, whereas files that end in just .log have a MIME type
> of text/plain. Who do I speak to about having them both return
> text/plain so that both types are viewable in the browser instead of
> having Firefox want to open/save the .rpm.log files locally?

But whats good is that .rpm.log doesn't really need to get read - those
are build successes :) The .log stuff is important, as those are
packages that need fixing

Alas, I'm sure that the mime-types on fedoraproject.org can be changed,
but what about the mirror servers that mirror Extras?
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