Mime Type Help
Serving Non-HTML Files
Because some servers are configured without an anonymous FTP server all files that are served over the Internet must be sent via HTTP. This is usually not a problem because a web server knows how to handle files that end in .htm, .gif, and .jpg as well as many others. Unfortunately, when the server tries to send a file that does not end in one of the recognized extensions the results are often less than satisfactory.
HTTP transfers require that the server know what type of file it is transferring. As a result, the server configuration needs updated each time a new file type is to be added. This requires that the server be shut down and rebooted in order to make the new file type recognizable by the system.
How To Make Your File Downloadable:
Below is a list of file types (often called MIME TYPES) that might be supported by a server. Take a look through the list and see if you can find some file types that are familiar.
############################################################################### # # MIME-TYPES and the extensions that represent them # # This file is part of the "mime-support" package. Please send email (not a # bug report) to mime-support@packages.debian.org if you would like new types # and/or extensions to be added. # # Note: Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip", and "compress" are not # actually "mime-types". They are "encodings" and hence must _not_ have # entries in this file to map their extensions. 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[Updated: Sunday, November 18, 2007]
