# WEBrick mime-type configuration

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-mime-type-configuration/67792>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-mime-type-configuration/67792 "2006-09-06T20:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-mime-type-configuration/67792/1 "2006-09-06T20:24:09Z")

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Does anyone know how I can get at the guts of how WEBrick handles  
mime-types?

I have a suspicion that it is returning an incorrect mime-type in a  
response.

Wes

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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webrick-mime-type-configuration/67792/2 "2006-09-06T20:33:57Z")

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FYI:

$RUBY\_HOME/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httputils.rb contains the set of default  
MIME types for WEBrick.

The “xsl” extension is not in this list.

Adding “xsl” =\> “text/xml” appears to allow XSL to come back to the  
browser correctly.

Wes