Re: bozohttpd mime types etting for markdown files

[Andreas Krey <a.krey%gmx.de@localhost>]

On Tue, 28 May 2019 14:28:26 +0000, Mayuresh wrote:
...
> Clicking on a .md file in, for example, a git repository renders it
> instead of asking to save.

I assume that is not the rendering of just the plain file
but also include navigation elemets around it? Like
https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/doc/HACKING/Maintaining.md does?
There the entire page is delivered as one html document.

> Or may be my expectation is wrong and is a web server supposed to convert
> it to html on the fly?

That depends on your expectation of what the server does in turn.
I wouldn't expect browsers to have markup processors.

- Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800