Please add new mime type on web4

[extrapolator <diogenes@vgernet.net>]

Hi Team,

Your web server is presently sending "application/octet-stream" for  
favicon.ico files.
This is a server misconfiguration.  (See below.)

Please add the following to your /etc/apache/mime.types file in order to  
provide support for favicons.

	image/x-icon	ico

This will correct the configuration.

As an alternative, you could add:

	AddType image/x-icon    .ico

to your httpd.conf file.

I have tested both of these possibilities on my Redhat Linux 9 Apache/2.0  
system, and they corrected the problem.


For tux users, I have added the mime type to my /etc/tux.mime.types and  
that fixed the problem on my linux box.  (Tux on Linux 9 pre-processes  
files before Apache).

Thanks,

Ralph


---- Forwarded Usenet-message ----
From: "Heiko Becker" <news.opera.com@nurfuerspam.de>
Newsgroups: opera.beta
Subject: Re: favicon processing looks more broken in 7.50P3 than in 7.50P2  
& 7.23
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 01:28:56 +0100
URL: news://<opr4meaib08wizra@news.opera.com>

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:59:52 -0500, extrapolator <diogenes@vgernet.net>
wrote:

> I seem to be having some strange results with favicons.
> My Opera 7.23 on my Linux system sees the favicon at  
> http://www.xenodochy.org/, but Opera7.50P3 running under W2K does not.

the problem is the changed handling for incorekt mime type sne dby server

http://people.opera.com/tim/changelogs/w750p3.html#detail

Transfers

Modified behavior for unreliable content-types. This should make it less
likely that you'll get plaintext garbage when you should download a file

- No extension guessing will be done in for "application/octet-stream" and
"text/plain" MIME types

this is the reason for the favicon problem. a lot of sites (also
my.opera.com) are misconficured and send text/plain instead image/x-icon

- "Application/octet-stream" is still considered unreliable and using the
extension and content for guessing is still performed when the resource is
loaded

this seems to produce a second (rare) bug. i got now on some sites a
donload window with this mime typ and php sites.


Heiko Becker



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