Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 01:15, Gary Affonso wrote:
> > Which leads me to ask...
> >
> > Is there any good reason to go to the work of defining auto-properties to
> > ensure that things like .jar, .jpg, .gif, etc. are all tagged with the
> > appropriate mime/type?
> >
> > I can't see any benefit to it for web-sites. As long as the repository is
> > properly seeing them as binary, I'm happy. But maybe I'm missing some
> > benefit.
>
> >From chapter 7:
>
> "Also, if the svn:mime-type property is set, then the Subversion Apache
> module will use its value to populate the Content-type: HTTP header when
> responding to GET requests. This gives a crucial clue about how to
> display a file when perusing your repository with a web browser."
In other words, if your website is only served up via a Subversion
working copy, then, no, there's no reason to bother with the precise
mime-type settings. But if you ever want to refer directly to
Subversion repository URLs, browser presentation will be greatly
improved for those things.
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Received on Thu May 27 18:08:22 2004