Issue 117272 - XML source (text/xml) is preferable
Summary: XML source (text/xml) is preferable
Status: CLOSED FIXED_WITHOUT_CODE
Alias: None
Product: Infrastructure
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Bugzilla (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All All
: P3 Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bernd.eilers
QA Contact: issues@www
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Reported: 2011-03-08 02:39 UTC by tora3
Modified: 2016-04-07 08:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Description tora3 2011-03-08 02:39:05 UTC 
When we try to attach a file to an issue on Bugzilla, there are four choices
of content type, or MIME type, media type:

Content Type:
 If the attachment is a patch, check the box below.
   [ ] patch --- (1)

 Otherwise, choose a method for determining the content type.
   (x) auto-detect --------- (2)
   ( ) select from list: --- (3)
   ( ) enter manually: ----- (4)

The list (3) currently offers seven choices:
  plain text (text/plain)
  HTML source (text/html)
  XML source (application/xml)
  GIF image (image/gif)
  JPEG image (image/jpeg)
  PNG image (image/png)
  binary file (application/octet-stream)

Of the choices, for XML source, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023 says:

   If an XML document -- that is, the unprocessed, source XML document
   -- is readable by casual users, text/xml is preferable to
   application/xml. ...

Could you consider altering a type of XML source from application/xml to text/xml?
Comment 1 bernd.eilers 2011-03-08 18:35:44 UTC 
now we just have two choices "XML text (text/xml)" and "XML data (application/xml)" in the listbox.
Comment 2 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 12:22:17 UTC 
getting rid of value "enhancement" for field "severity".
For enhancement the field "issue type" shall be used.
Comment 3 Du Jing 2012-06-19 09:43:30 UTC 
suggest close it,because now the attachment type will be auto-checked to some format by Bugzilla.