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Org Media Type

1. Introduction

This page tracks information about the .org extension media type.

Based on this thread on the Org mode mailing list, the consensus is that the .org file extension should map to the text/org MIME type.

Until the Org syntax spec is complete and a proposal submitted to and approved by IANA, we can ask downstream MIME libraries to override applicaion/vnd.lotus-organizer with text/org.

2. Downstream MIME Libraries

2.1. jshttp/mime-db - NodeJS

jshttp/mime-db is the de facto standard MIME database for NodeJS. This commit adds a mapping from .org to text/x-org, but the two popular NodeJS utilities for getting a MIME type from a file extension, jshttp/mime-types and broofa/mime, return applicaion/vnd.lotus-organizer. Both libraries return only the highest preference media type, and IANA-sourced media types are preferred over other types.

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