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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:32:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: Javascript mime type
From: Tim Williams <williamstw@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Sjur Moshagen <sjurnm@mac.com> wrote:
> According to this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101394/javasc=
ript-mime-type
> and many others on the net, application/javascript is the correct answer,=
 but not accepted by MS IE =E2=89=A4 8. Which leaves us with text/javascrip=
t. But several places (including the above) argues that leaving it empty is=
 fine, and the most compatible. I have no strong opinions, though, just tha=
t the present mime type definitely is wrong :)

I'd go with text/javascript - it's a reasonable default.  It's worth
noting that we serve it as 'application/javascript' because that's the
default mime-type mapping for httpd[1].

--tim

[1] - http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.type=
s