mime.types outdated

[aitte.myopenid.com]

/etc/nginx/mime.types delivers .js files as "application/x-javascript"

According to the RFC (​http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4329.txt) it should be "application/javascript" and x-javascript is discouraged by the RFC.

That one definitely needs fixing. Other types in mime.types may need fixing too. This is just the one I know of. It may be time to go through the entire list to verify that it's all correct.

[aitte.myopenid.com]

Summary of fixes:

Follow RFC:
application/javascript js;

Add support for WebFonts:
application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot; (​http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ms-fontobject)
application/font-woff woff; (​http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/font-woff)
application/x-font-ttf ttf; (this is the most common mime type for this unregistered format)
application/x-font-opentype otf; (same here; this is the most correct type for this unregistered mime type)

[aitte.myopenid.com]

I discovered that .eot is currently registered in mime.types as:

application/octet-stream eot;

This is definitely wrong. It's been officially registered as application/vnd.ms-fontobject.

Combine this with the way that javascript was being served with the deprecated application/x-javascript, and I think it's important that the whole file be re-evaluated to make sure it's correct.

The ​http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types site will help with official answers for all registered file types. The rest will have to be found via Google to figure out what the correct mime types for them are.

[aitte.myopenid.com]

This is my own corrected mime.types file which fixes the .js type, removes the incorrect .eot type, and adds the 4 WebFont types, but more fixes may be needed.

types {
    text/html                             html htm shtml;
    text/css                              css;
    text/xml                              xml;
    image/gif                             gif;
    image/jpeg                            jpeg jpg;
    application/javascript                js;
    application/atom+xml                  atom;
    application/rss+xml                   rss;

    text/mathml                           mml;
    text/plain                            txt;
    text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor      jad;
    text/vnd.wap.wml                      wml;
    text/x-component                      htc;

    image/png                             png;
    image/tiff                            tif tiff;
    image/vnd.wap.wbmp                    wbmp;
    image/x-icon                          ico;
    image/x-jng                           jng;
    image/x-ms-bmp                        bmp;
    image/svg+xml                         svg svgz;
    image/webp                            webp;

    application/vnd.ms-fontobject         eot;
    application/x-font-ttf                ttf;
    application/x-font-woff               woff;
    application/x-font-opentype           otf;

    application/java-archive              jar war ear;
    application/mac-binhex40              hqx;
    application/msword                    doc;
    application/pdf                       pdf;
    application/postscript                ps eps ai;
    application/rtf                       rtf;
    application/vnd.ms-excel              xls;
    application/vnd.ms-powerpoint         ppt;
    application/vnd.wap.wmlc              wmlc;
    application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml  kml;
    application/vnd.google-earth.kmz      kmz;
    application/x-7z-compressed           7z;
    application/x-cocoa                   cco;
    application/x-java-archive-diff       jardiff;
    application/x-java-jnlp-file          jnlp;
    application/x-makeself                run;
    application/x-perl                    pl pm;
    application/x-pilot                   prc pdb;
    application/x-rar-compressed          rar;
    application/x-redhat-package-manager  rpm;
    application/x-sea                     sea;
    application/x-shockwave-flash         swf;
    application/x-stuffit                 sit;
    application/x-tcl                     tcl tk;
    application/x-x509-ca-cert            der pem crt;
    application/x-xpinstall               xpi;
    application/xhtml+xml                 xhtml;
    application/zip                       zip;

    application/octet-stream              bin exe dll;
    application/octet-stream              deb;
    application/octet-stream              dmg;
    application/octet-stream              iso img;
    application/octet-stream              msi msp msm;

    audio/midi                            mid midi kar;
    audio/mpeg                            mp3;
    audio/ogg                             ogg;
    audio/x-m4a                           m4a;
    audio/x-realaudio                     ra;

    video/3gpp                            3gpp 3gp;
    video/mp4                             mp4;
    video/mpeg                            mpeg mpg;
    video/quicktime                       mov;
    video/webm                            webm;
    video/x-flv                           flv;
    video/x-m4v                           m4v;
    video/x-mng                           mng;
    video/x-ms-asf                        asx asf;
    video/x-ms-wmv                        wmv;
    video/x-msvideo                       avi;
}

[glebius.myopenid.com]

Several other suggestions to add to mime.types:

text/plain md5 sha1;
archive/xz lzma xz;
binary/tdb-garmin-map tdb;
binary/garmin-style typ;
xml/garmin-track-file gpx;

[aitte.myopenid.com]

I just discovered that the HTML5 Boilerplate project chose to serve OpenType with this invalid MIME type: "font/opentype". It's not legal ("font/*" is not a valid mime type), but turns out that this is the ONLY way to avoid console errors in Google Chrome! All other mime types will make Google Chrome log an error saying that a font was served with an invalid mime type. So yeah, they really take care of the tiniest details over there and it would be a very good idea to look at their project for fixes to your mime.types file.

[Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@…>]

In 010bb2e21f3f9c47469accbc503aed29d7dc5cae/nginx:

MIME: eot MIME type updated to follow IANA (ticket #306).

[Sergey Kandaurov]

.eot and .js were committed some time ago.
Others MIME types are not something to be committed.