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RE: Bad MIMETYPE configuration for .htm files accessed via SVN HTTP

From: vishwanath ramachandran_at_honeywell.com <ramachandran_at_honeywell.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:32:59 +0530

That is where, I am confused. There are no errors, the page is blank :(
 I have added the mime-type to every .html extensions like svn:
mime-type application/x-shockwave-flash

Is something wrong here?

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R.R.Vishwanath
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:subversion-2009d_at_ryandesign.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 7:15 PM
To: Ramachandran, Vishwanath(IE10)
Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Bad MIMETYPE configuration for .htm files accessed via SVN
HTTP

On Nov 25, 2009, at 07:19, vishwanath ramachandran_at_honeywell.com wrote:

> When accessing an .htm file stored in subversion, the server sends
back the content with the text/plain MIMETYPE. The browser is then
showing the .htm file as a plain/text file. If I open the same link in
IE, it will work as expected, but in Firefox. Actually, it is not a
problem with Firefox. The MIMETYPE that is sent by the HTTP server
clearly specifies to the browser that it should decode the sent content
(the htm file in this case) as a plain text, which Firefox does. IE
apparently overrides the HTTP MIMETYPEs with a mimetype contained in the
file itself. According to W3C HTTP standards, the HTTP requests
mimetypes shall always take precedence.
> However, I expect that without this MIMETYPE specified in the request,
Firefox would then use the mimetype contained in the file to decide upon
how to decode it.
>
> The problem comes from the SVN HTTP frontend: there should be a
mapping table in one of the frontend configuration files, that maps
known file extensions to appropriate mimetype such as *.jpg ->
mimetype/image-jpeg. Apparently, the *.htm and *.html entries are either
missing, either put as text/plain.

As you already know, you need to set the svn:mime-type property of every
.htm and .html file in your repository to text/html for this to work as
you want. See my reply to your previous email on this subject.

> I have added the svn-mime type to video file e.g. (abc.html)
svn:mime-type application/x-shockwave-flash, but it still it does not
play. When I don't embed as an object controller (video will be played
continuously, we can't stop, pause, there is no option to stop, pause),
the file plays in Firefox

If you've set the file's svn:mime-type property correctly, and committed
that to the repository, I don't know why it wouldn't work.

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