[Tracker-discuss] [issue381] default mime-type for attachments should be text/plain

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

The default mime-type for attachments is currently application/octet-stream.
This makes it uselessly complicated to view attachments in the browser, while most of them are really text files. Examples are when people upload file without an extension (which is common among Unix users), or unrecognized extensions (such as .log or others).

I would therefore like the default mime-type to be text/plain. It would save us manual changes.

(recent example: http://bugs.python.org/issue11653)

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messages: 1930
nosy: ezio.melotti, pitrou, r.david.murray
priority: bug
status: unread
title: default mime-type for attachments should be text/plain

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