The Problem
Lighttpd ignores the Content-Type extattr on a file ("wpad.dat") despite being set to use them.
$ getextattr user Content-Type wpad.dat
wpad.dat application/x-javascript-config
$ wget http://sabertooth.lan/wpad.dat
--18:39:59-- http://sabertooth.lan/wpad.dat
=> `wpad.dat'
Resolving sabertooth.lan... 10.0.0.1
Connecting to sabertooth.lan|10.0.0.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 186 [application/octet-stream]
100%[====================================>] 186 --.--K/s
18:39:59 (8.45 MB/s) - `wpad.dat' saved [186/186]
My Configuration
$ uname -a
FreeBSD sabertooth.techpuppy.org 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #1: Sat Jul 29 21:43:24 UTC 2006 root@sabertooth.techpuppy.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SABERTOOTH amd64
$ lighttpd -V
lighttpd-1.4.11 (ssl) - a light and fast webserver
Build-Date: Jul 29 2006 22:15:10
Event Handlers:
+ select (generic)
+ poll (Unix)
- rt-signals (Linux 2.4+)
- epoll (Linux 2.6)
- /dev/poll (Solaris)
+ kqueue (FreeBSD)
Network handler:
+ sendfile
Features:
+ IPv6 support
+ zlib support
+ bzip2 support
+ crypt support
- PAM support
+ SSL Support
+ PCRE support
- mySQL support
- LDAP support
- memcached support
- FAM support
- LUA support
- xml support
- SQLite support
- GDBM support
$ egrep -v '^#|^[[:space:]]*$' lighttpd.conf
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_userdir",
"mod_compress",
"mod_accesslog" )
server.document-root = "/usr/local/www/data/"
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html",
"index.htm", "default.htm" )
server.event-handler = "freebsd-kqueue" # needed on OS X
mimetype.assign = (
".pdf" => "application/pdf",
".sig" => "application/pgp-signature",
".spl" => "application/futuresplash",
".class" => "application/octet-stream",
".ps" => "application/postscript",
".torrent" => "application/x-bittorrent",
".dvi" => "application/x-dvi",
".gz" => "application/x-gzip",
".pac" => "application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig",
".swf" => "application/x-shockwave-flash",
".tar.gz" => "application/x-tgz",
".tgz" => "application/x-tgz",
".tar" => "application/x-tar",
".zip" => "application/zip",
".mp3" => "audio/mpeg",
".m3u" => "audio/x-mpegurl",
".wma" => "audio/x-ms-wma",
".wax" => "audio/x-ms-wax",
".ogg" => "application/ogg",
".wav" => "audio/x-wav",
".gif" => "image/gif",
".jpg" => "image/jpeg",
".jpeg" => "image/jpeg",
".png" => "image/png",
".xbm" => "image/x-xbitmap",
".xpm" => "image/x-xpixmap",
".xwd" => "image/x-xwindowdump",
".css" => "text/css",
".html" => "text/html",
".htm" => "text/html",
".js" => "text/javascript",
".asc" => "text/plain",
".c" => "text/plain",
".cpp" => "text/plain",
".log" => "text/plain",
".conf" => "text/plain",
".text" => "text/plain",
".txt" => "text/plain",
".dtd" => "text/xml",
".xml" => "text/xml",
".mpeg" => "video/mpeg",
".mpg" => "video/mpeg",
".mov" => "video/quicktime",
".qt" => "video/quicktime",
".avi" => "video/x-msvideo",
".asf" => "video/x-ms-asf",
".asx" => "video/x-ms-asf",
".wmv" => "video/x-ms-wmv",
".bz2" => "application/x-bzip",
".tbz" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar",
".tar.bz2" => "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar"
)
mimetype.use-xattr = "enable"
accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
$HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" {
server.range-requests = "disable"
}
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
server.pid-file = "/var/run/lighttpd.pid"
dir-listing.activate = "enable"
server.username = "www"
server.groupname = "www"
userdir.path = "public_html"
userdir.exclude-user = ( "root", "toor", "nx", "parker" )
