| [jetty-dev] MIME type for .otf file extension |
The .otf file extension appears in two different IANA MIME type registrations: - https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula-template - https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/font/otf Given the choice between two equally valid MIME types, which should be preferred? Preference should be given to font/otf because a .otf file on a web server is more likely to be an OpenType Font (e.g. using the @font-face CSS rule as described in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face and other documents) than an OpenDocument Formula Template. This preference is also shared by Apache httpd: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/c4f35264e9f30272cd12d9e9d47f0eb041d93b77/docs/conf/mime.types#L1536 In https://github.com/jetty/jetty.project/pull/12097 I submitted a pull request to use the font/otf MIME type for the .otf file extension. An Eclipse Jetty core developer requested changes on that pull request on the grounds that it has eliminated a valid extension mapping. That review failed to take into account the point made in the first sentence of the pull request—that between two equally valid MIME type choices, preference should be given to font/otf for the reason given above.