Caching application/x-javascript

[adeelejaz]

application/x-javascript has been added to sent as gzip'ed. Shouldn't application/x-javascript mime type be also cached with the rest?

[adeelejaz]

also, image/gif?

[paulirish]

gif! haha.
okay fine fine. :)

do you want to fork and commit that? i can get around to it if you cant

[adeelejaz]

Just want to make sure we have all the bases covered ;)

Forking.. I was looking for a reason to fork this anyway!

[adeelejaz]

Ok.. some digging around and reading has brought something else up..

The Network Working Group published a memo in 2006, calling the following media types obsolete (along with a few others):
text/javascript
text/ecmascript
text/x-javascript
text/x-ecmascript
application/x-javascript
application/x-ecmascript
Source: Scripting Media Types (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4329.txt)

The document suggests the following to be used instead:
application/javascript
application/ecmascript

Oddly enough the W3C allows all of them (backward compatibility I guess):
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#scriptingLanguages

So much for standards huh.. I've pushed the changes btw.

[paulirish]

we can close this right, adeelejaz?

holler at me if this is still an open issue.

[adeelejaz]

My only concern is 'application/x-javascript' is sent via gzip but not given an expiry header. Shouldn't we just remove 'application/x-javascript' all together or just add an expiry header for it to keep things consistent?

[paulirish]

Okay sure. Let's remove x-javascript from the gzip line.
if you commit that i'll pull it in.