Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed
by yuliyp on Thursday September 16, 2021 @08:14PM
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I agree with you, I think?
Whether you call such a list a registry or not is fairly trivial, I think. Their web server uses such a mapping, and for some reason usernames with suffixes on that list confused something. Call it a registry, or a mapping, or a list, the meaning of the statement is the same, and I don't think it prevents most people from understanding what's going on.
Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed
by jfrunyon on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:36AM
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registry (noun): a place or office where registers or records are kept; an official list or register.
In this case, a registry would be a mapping, however a mapping is not a registry. A registry is the single, centralized place from which you can look up registrations, to guarantee that there are no conflicting records. Literally none of that is (or can be, at this point) true of file extensions.
Yes. I am well aware that certain software, such as Windows, MimeMagic, or Apache, do include their own lists. That is not a "registry" and in fact you will likely find that every such list is either identical to, a fork of, or incompatible with every other such list.