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From: Jan Bredereke <bredereke@informatik.uni-kl.de>
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Subject: Incorrect content-type for `foo.ps.gz' and 'foo.ps.Z' files
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>Number:         672
>Category:       mod_mime
>Synopsis:       Incorrect content-type for `foo.ps.gz' and 'foo.ps.Z' files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun  4 07:40:01 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sun Jun  8 20:34:25 PDT 1997
>Originator:     bredereke@informatik.uni-kl.de
>Organization:
>Release:        1.1.3
>Environment:
Any
>Description:
(See also PR#665)
For any file with an extension such as `.ps.gz',
Apache returns

Content-Type: application/x-gzip
Content-Encoding: x-gzip

This is incorrect.  The content-type should be
application/postscript.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
PR#665 proposes a source patch.
Alternatively, we can work around it if we just change the 
(distribution) configuration files:
In file 'mime.types', we comment out the lines for 'application/x-gzip',
and also for 'application/x-compress'. They do not describe contents
but encondings. See also the 'AddEncoding' entries in file 'srm.conf
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: marc
State-Changed-When: Sun Jun  8 20:34:25 PDT 1997
State-Changed-Why:
Yes, the solution you propose is the more correct one.  
The source patch suggested behaves incorrectly under
some conditions.  Note that the content-type for .gz files
was taken out of the distribution mime.types file a
long time in 1.2bsomething.
>Unformatted: