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Re: svn commit: r14262 - trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2005-05-04 23:29:46 CEST

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>I just asked Ben why we default to "text/plain" instead of
>"application/octet-stream" here. He didn't know either.
>
>(The code was that way before, it just got reshifted in this commit.)
>
>I would think "application/octet-stream" would be a lot safer when we
>don't know anything about the file. Does anyone know more about this?
>
>
When it sees a file that doesn't have the svn:mime-type property set,
Subversion assumes it is a text file. It would be slighly weird if
mod_dav_svn behaved differently.

-- Brane

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