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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: httpd default MIME and 'clean url'.
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2018-04-06 23:16:20
Message-ID: CAK1hOcP3pYcruProbUWSxwvK59kuhuyCNx=Mok1a4GnzgGEiUw () mail ! gmail ! com
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Applied to git, please try.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 9:59 AM, xisd <xisd-dev@riseup.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought there was a problem related MIME type of html file without
> extension, being considered as 'application/octet-stream' by httpd,it
> would seems the problem is more specifically that they are attributed a
> wrong Content-Type header.
>
> As an answer to that the developer of Datenstrom Yellow suggested a
> patch for httpd: No Content-Type header if MIME type is unknown
>
> Here is a link to the patch diff :
> https://github.com/datenstrom/yellow/issues/317#issuecomment-378219514
>
> That would solve the issue with html files without extension being
> attributed the wrong Content-Type header
>
> I know it would have been better to submit changes to busybox git, but I
> don't know how.
>
> Note : Looking into that made me wonder, is it possible to change the
> MIME type attributed to files without extension from httpd.conf ? I saw
> that it is possible to edit Mime type associations for specific
> extensions, is there a wild card or something for those without one ?
>
>
> xisd:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had some trouble using busybox httpd to serve a static website and I
>> thought the issue might be of interest.
>>
>> My problem is related to something that seem quite common for static
>> site generator :  the use of html files without the '.html' extension
>> (it is called 'clean url'...)
>>
>> Most web server guess that these files are html and display them like
>> any other .html files.
>>
>>>From what I understood, the MIME type for files without extension in
>> busybox htttp default settings is 'application/octet-stream', and
>> because of that 'clean url' pages are not displayed.
>>
>> It is only trouble because I wanted to deploy my website on freshly
>> installed linux without editing any configuration.
>>
>> The default MIME setting make sense to me as it is, I just thought that
>> might be worth mentioning since the use of 'clean url' seem to be a
>> common practice for static sites generators (the one I use is callled
>> 'yellow' (https://github.com/datenstrom/yellow))
>>
>> Here is a link for the related issue on github :
>> https://github.com/datenstrom/yellow/issues/317
>>
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