Squid - Incorrect MIME type

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Incorrect MIME type

Greg T

2004-07-28, 5:48 pm

Hi,

I have a squid proxy server which usually runs fine, except for one page
on one site with the name of Readme.html.

Squid returns the MIME type of this file as text/plain, despite being
explicitly told in /etc/squid/mime.conf that anything ending with html
should be text/html.

I have tried resetting squids cache (by means of deleting and recreating
the /var/spool/squid directory), clearing store.log, and client -m PURGE
commands, but to no avail.

Is there a generic solution to this type of problem?

thanks,
Greg

Greg T

2004-07-28, 5:48 pm

I mean, if squid's mime.conf says *.html shalt be "text/html" then
surely that MIME type should be returned to the browser, no?

The silly thing is that nobody else that I can find seems to have had
this problem.

Greg

Greg T wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a squid proxy server which usually runs fine, except for one page
> on one site with the name of Readme.html.
>
> Squid returns the MIME type of this file as text/plain, despite being
> explicitly told in /etc/squid/mime.conf that anything ending with html
> should be text/html.
>
> I have tried resetting squids cache (by means of deleting and recreating
> the /var/spool/squid directory), clearing store.log, and client -m PURGE
> commands, but to no avail.
>
> Is there a generic solution to this type of problem?
>
> thanks,
> Greg

Muthukumar_K

2004-10-12, 5:01 pm

What is your squid version there. Get that as,

path to squid binary/squid -v

It will give that information. Try to upgrade that's age to 2.5.6 series > or more.

Can you get wget informations for that file there.

wget http://www..../.../Readme.html

It is good to analyse this problem with the squid's access.log entry for that file access more.

HTH.

REgards
Muthukumar.

Visolve Squid Support Team.
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