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#516 FAQ says MIME type for rst is text/x-rst but its source page is served as text/prs.fallenstein.rst
The Docutils FAQ says in section 2.24 https://docutils.sourceforge.io/FAQ.html#what-s-the-official-mime-type-for-restructuredtext-data:
[...] the "official unofficial" standard MIME type is "text/x-rst".
However, when following the "View document source" at the bottom of the page, I get a different MIME type:
$ curl -I https://docutils.sourceforge.io/FAQ.rst
HTTP/2 200
date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:20:49 GMT
content-type: text/prs.fallenstein.rst
[...]
Clearly, this is not what the FAQ says.
Thank you for the information.
According to the IANA entry, Benja Fallenstein registered the "rst" MIME type because:
So the actual error is not the quoted part of the FAQ answer, but
It seems that with the switch of the source file extension from ".txt" to ".rst" in August 2024 some applications started to use the registered MIME type when serving or analysing the source files.
Last edit: Günter Milde 2025-12-16
The author/change controller writes in the registration:
We may consider taking over as "change controller" and
text/prs.fallenstein.rst(never touch a running system),
text/prs.docutils.rst(simple registration in the Personal Registration Tree), or
text/rst(official registry, requires publication of an RFC)
Commit [r10290] updates the FAQ answer to document the 3rd party entry "text/prs.fallenstein.rst"
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Commit: [r10290]