mime: wrong content-type return when use svg as css background-image

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by ipv6.elata:

the right return content-type is image/svg+xml


Which operating system are you using?
windows 7 64bit

Which version are you using?  (run 'go version')
go1.1.2 windows/386

Please provide any additional information below.
the related source file is
http://golang.org/src/pkg/mime/type.go
but modify the registry to edit mimetypes is very trouble on winodws
I think  the easy way is add a mime type 
".svg":  "image/svg+xml", in mimeTypes

[alexbrainman]

Comment 1:

Please, provide a small program to demonstrate the issue. And tell us what your program
outputs and what you think it should output instead. Thank you.
Alex

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Comment 6 by germanium@gmx.us:

I have the same issue on Linux.
My distribution doesn't include a "mime.types" file therefore http.FileServer gives me a
mime type of "text/xml; charset=utf-8" for .svg files.
Firefox refuses to display .svg files in <img> tags unless the mime type is
"image/svg+xml".
I think it would be nice to have ".svg" in mime.mimeTypes if it is appropriate because
it is useful to display static web pages correctly.
Thanks, L

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Comment 7 by iacob.campia:

You can add a mime.AddExtensionType(".svg", "image/svg+xml") line (and import "mime")
and all is good. 
I had the same problem on Centos. But not because the mime file was missing, but because
it expects to start with <!DOCTYPE svg and most .svg files start with <?xml
version="1.0 ?><!DOCTYPE svg ....

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Comment 8 by treeder:

This happens on Google App Engine too using http.ServeFile, returns svg files with
content-type text/xml. I've even done what was suggested above, adding
mime.AddExtensionType(".svg", "image/svg+xml"), but that doesn't work.

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Comment 9 by treeder:

Same things happens on App Engine, adding the mime-type as above:
mime.AddExtensionType(".svg", "image/svg+xml"), seems to have fixed it.