mime: should application/x-javascript be changed to application/javascript ?

[romainmenke]

go/src/mime/type.go

Line 65 in 829b64c

".js": "application/x-javascript",

What did you do?

Serve javascript files with go. The application runs in a docker container based on golang:1-alpine

What did you expect to see?

Content-Type : application/javascript

What did you see instead?

Content-Type : application/x-javascript

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Illustration did not fit in a playground : runnable example

relevant? rfc4329

As far as I can tell golang:1-alpine doesn't come with any registered mime types. This means that only the built in types are used for content type sniffing. application/javascript is not included in the built in types.

Should application/javascript be included and (separately) should application/x-javascript be removed?

[ALTree]

This is #7498, which is still open. There was a CL (https://codereview.appspot.com/73070043) but (from the old thread):

According to Brad's comment on the CL, we need more proof that change is safe in the wild.

and then the discussion stalled and the change was not merged.

[ALTree]

I've moved the old thread into the 1.11 milestone and tentatively labelled as "NeedsDecision" to give it a chance to be looked at in the near future. I guess you can comment in the old thread if you have any insights on why this would be a needed (and safe) change, to keep all the discussion in one place. I suggest we close this as a dup of #7498.

[romainmenke]

@ALTree Yes this can be closed as it is indeed a duplicate (search failed me, or overlooked it). Thank you for the fast response.