[PATCH] Added StarOffice/OpenOffice.org File Formats to mime.types

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 12:14:00AM +0200, Michiel Leenaars wrote:

> # HG changeset patch
> # User Michiel Leenaars <ml.software at leenaa.rs>
> # Date 1504563233 -7200
> #      Tue Sep 05 00:13:53 2017 +0200
> # Node ID 85e82dd57aa77dd95a28762c65ffa0824681dcd0
> # Parent  b31eb2901b627733dd3d9aaa07ce8071aa7c5dad
> Added StarOffice/OpenOffice.org File Formats to mime.types
> 
> OpenOffice.org and its commercial sibling StarOffice were the most popular
> cross-platform office alternative for quite a few years, running on *NIX,
> Windows, Linux and other OS-es. They were the predecessor to popular open
> source office suites such as Apache Open Office, LibreOffice, NeoOffice and
> Lotus Symphony - with many millions of users around the world.
> 
> This patch adds the family of file formats from those applications to the
> mimetypes recognised by Nginx. Apache has had these exact same mimetypes in
> their mimetype catalog for many years, as do other webservers like Lighttpd.
> 
> The use case is simple: people migrating their static website from
> another webserver that did support these mime types results in broken
> user experience. Including these file formats is a service to those
> individuals and organisations around the world that together still have many
> archives online containing legacy StarOffice/OpenOffice.org files (note that
> quite a few other filetypes concern legacy file formats such as RealAudio, Word
> and RTF). The mimetypes suggested are officially registered at IANA.
> 
> diff -r b31eb2901b62 -r 85e82dd57aa7 conf/mime.types
> --- a/conf/mime.types	Mon Sep 04 23:59:17 2017 +0200
> +++ b/conf/mime.types	Tue Sep 05 00:13:53 2017 +0200
> @@ -68,6 +68,23 @@
>      application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet          xlsx;
>      application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation  pptx;
>  
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.chart                                          sds;
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.calc                                           sdc;
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.writer                                         sdw;
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global                                  sgl;
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.draw                                           sda;
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.impress                                        sdd;
> +    application/vnd.stardivision.math                                           sdf;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.writer                                              sxw;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template                                     stw;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.global                                       sxg;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.calc                                                sxc;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.calc.template                                       stc;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.impress                                             sxi;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.impress.template                                    sti;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.draw                                                sxd;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.draw.template                                       std;
> +    application/vnd.sun.xml.math                                                sxm;
>      application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text                                     odt;
>      application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template                            ott;
>      application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-web                                 oth;

No, thanks.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
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