Re: mime-type and mime-encoding for .svgz from Bob Tennent on 2014-03-31 (www-svg@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Bob Tennent <rdt@cs.queensu.ca>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:44:18 -0400
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Message-ID: <53396322.dF7gdMLvkEbNWV4s%rdt@cs.queensu.ca>

 >|>My interpretation of the w3c recommendations is that a .svgz
 >|>file should be served with Content-Type: image/svg+xml and
 >|>Content-Encoding: gzip. Am I wrong?
 >|
 >|You are correct, a gzipped SVG file should be served with those two
 >|headers. http://marc.info/?l=thttpd&m=139491235425779&w=2 seems to be
 >|the most mistaken message in the thread, if someone wants to respond.

Thanks.  But the most important message to respond to is

http://marc.info/?l=thttpd&m=139477735022817&w=2

because he's the author of the thttpd software. If he doesn't think
the .svgz extension indicates *both* an encoding *and* a mime-type,
there's no way the software will be fixed.

Bob T.

Received on Monday, 31 March 2014 12:44:50 UTC