application/x-javascript vs application/javascript

Hello,

Why in some Apache httpd, JavaScript is sent by Content Type =
application/x-javascript, but some httpd is application/javascript?

Both are 2.2.


Thanks.

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Re: application/x-javascript vsapplication/javascript

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 23:19 +0800, howard chen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Why in some Apache httpd, JavaScript is sent by Content Type =
> application/x-javascript, but some httpd is application/javascript?
>
> Both are 2.2.
>
>
> Thanks.
>

The mime type of a file sent from disk is determined by apache using the
file extension and looking it up in the mime.types file referenced in
the apache config with the directive TypesConfig[1], which defaults to
'conf/mime.types', relative to the ServerRoot.

In the stock apache mime.types, .js files are configured as such:
> $ egrep js$ /usr/local/etc/apache22/mime.types
application/javascript js

If you are getting a different mime-type, then that is because either
your mime.types file has a different setting, or it is being overridden
with an explicit
AddType application/x-javascript .js

Cheers

Tom

[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#typesconf ig
[2] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype



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