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Author: Julian Reschke
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To: dev
Subject: DefaultType None directive
Hi,

looking at <https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13986#c64>:

> ------- Comment #64 From Phil Ringnalda 2008-07-03 00:07:23 PST [reply] -------
>
> While I don't have any real expectation of action coming from a comment on a
> resolved bug, I still want to mention that the fix for this bug did not fix
> this bug: it made it _possible_ to "remove default MIME-type" while ignoring
> the part of comment 55 about "a) remove DefaultType from the standard
> httpd.conf.in file," which still combines a text/plain default with simply
> awful advice about using text/plain "If your server contains mostly ... HTML
> documents."


It seems Phil is correct in that this issue shouldn't be closed until
the default httpd.conf also is changed.

Furthermore, has backporting been considered?

BR, Julian