Issue 117272

Summary:	XML source (text/xml) is preferable
Product:	Infrastructure	Reporter:	tora3
Component:	Bugzilla	Assignee:	bernd.eilers
Status:	CLOSED FIXED_WITHOUT_CODE	QA Contact:	issues@www <issues>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	bernd.eilers, bjdujing, issues
Version:	current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

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.