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> File extensions exist completely outside of MIME. Yes. I am well aware that certain software, such as Windows, MimeMagic, or Apache, do include their own lis
by jfrunyon 5y ago
> File extensions exist completely outside of MIME.
Yes. I am well aware that certain software, such as Windows, MimeMagic, or Apache, do include their own lists. That is not a "registry" and in fact you will likely find that every such list is either identical to, a fork of, or incompatible with every other such list.
- yuliyp 5y agoI agree with you, I think? Whether you call such a list a registry or not is fairly trivial, I think. Their web server uses such a mapping, and for some reason usernames with suffixes on that list confused something. Call it a registry, or a mapping, or a list, the meaning of the statement is the same, and I don't think it prevents most people from understanding what's going on.
- jfrunyon 5y agoregistry (noun): a place or office where registers or records are kept; an official list or register. In this case, a registry would be a mapping, however a mapping is not a registry. A registry is the single, centralized place from which you can look up registrations, to guarantee that there are no conflicting records. Literally none of that is (or can be, at this point) true of file extensions.