.tbz2 files are not plain text files

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I just tried to download an archive by accessing this URL in the browser:

​http://packages.macports.org/libiconv/libiconv-1.14_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tbz2

The browser began displaying it as if it were a text file, because the server is delivering it with the text/plain MIME type. This is not a plain text file and should be served with the application/octet-stream MIME type, or better yet the proper MIME type, whatever that is (I've seen various options:

• application/bzip2
• application/x-bz2
• application/x-bzip
• application/x-bzip2
• application/x-bzip-compressed-tar

).

If the distfiles server is a different machine from the packages server, it also needs such a change; see:

​http://distfiles.macports.org/libmowgli/libmowgli-0.7.1.tbz2

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

In addition to fixing the MIME type for .tbz2 files specifically, since the purpose of the packages and distfiles servers is to distribute non-text files, it would be good to change the default MIME type to application/octet-stream. That's this directive in httpd.conf:

#
# DefaultType: the default MIME type the server will use for a document
# if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
# If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is
# a good value.  If most of your content is binary, such as applications
# or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to
# keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
# text.
#
DefaultType text/plain

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Fixed