There are various text files in the Bedstead sources (and hence on the
Web site) that have conventional names in all caps, like NEWS. These
should be served as text/plain. That can be achieved in Apache using
a <FilesMatch> block and ForceType.
It looks like by AddOutputFilterByType directive somehow overrides the
defaults, and also there are a few more types that could usefully be
compressd. So now it lists all the compressible file types in the
directory.
It was syntactically XHTML already, but various things suggested that it
might be HTML instead. Now it has a proper content-type in Apache, a
filename that Firefox can understand when reading from a local file, and
for good measure a <meta> tag. That should keep everyone except possibly
Lynx users happy.
