IF systems have used a lot of file suffixes over the years. The torrent
has slowed down; people aren't creating new formats with quite the
enthusiasm that they did in the 1990s. But we still have a pretty large
list to keep track of. We want to make sure that binary formats aren't
served as text/plain.
Here is the Apache configuration file that is used
by this web server. It covers all the file suffixes I could find in the
archive. If you're configuring a modern Apache setup, just drop it into
your Apache config directory
(see
here for more information).
If you want to use these settings on a shared
virtual host where you do not have administrative access, you can rename
the file to .htaccess and put it in your top-level web
directory.
Most of the wacky file formats are just
application/octet-stream. There's special handling for
Z-code, Glulx, Blorb, and TADS 2 and 3 game files, since they're so common.
These are
application/x-zmachine,
application/x-glulx,
application/x-blorb,
application/x-tads, and
application/x-t3vm-image
respectively.
Note that .zblorb and .gblorb files don't have
their own MIME types; they are served as "profiles" of
application/x-blorb. I'm not sure any software understands
profiles in this sense, but I like to think that it'll make something
magically work right someday.
If you have any comments, complaints, or suggestions, please send them to <tech .at. ifarchive .dot. org>.