Re: [PATCH] gitweb: use correct mime type even if filename has multiple dots.

>> Looking at /etc/mime.types, it only contains pcf.Z but perhaps
>> it should also contain tar.gz or similiar.
> 
> Probably.  But that makes me think it might be better to:
> 
>  - read in mime.types, sort the entries with length of the
>    suffixes (longer first);
> 
>  - try matching the suffixes from longer to shorter and pick the
>    first match.
> 
> Without that, you would not be able to cope with a /etc/mime.types
> that looks like this, no?
> 
>         application/a   a
>         application/b   b.a
> 
> Perhaps something like the attached.