RE: RSS extension on php.net sites

what mime type should it be? -- james > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 8:33 PM > To: webmaster@php.net; systems@php.net > Subject: RSS extension on php.net sites > > > Hi! > > Now the RSS news feed file is generated and is available from > php.net/news.rss > I have choosen the rss extension, because I thought it covers > precisely what > the file is. But as it seems, Apache has no precofiguration for the rss > extension, so it returns it with the default MIME type. The > question is how > to > solve this problem: > > A) Use .xml as an extension, something like news.xml > B) Set up the MIME association for .rss files and encourage mirrors > to do so (like they did with the 404 error handler) > > I think B would be more correct, but it's nearly impossible to acoomplish > for existing mirrors (for new mirrors we can put that httpd.conf part into > the sample at php.net/mirroring). But I don't like A either, as I > think it's > a bit too general... Maybe rssnews.xml or something alike... But I would > like > to choose a name to be able to name future RSS feeds using the same scheme > (a possible future calendar feed for example). > > Goba > > >