#+title: Org Media Type
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* Introduction

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

Based on [[https://yhetil.org/orgmode/6d94fff4-4d30-4121-bfd1-f267cb5b637c@gmail.com/][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 [[file:org-syntax.org][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~.

* Downstream MIME Libraries

** jshttp/mime-db - NodeJS

[[https://github.com/jshttp/mime-db][jshttp/mime-db]] is the de facto standard MIME database for NodeJS.
[[https://github.com/jshttp/mime-db/commit/5797174e5434a8d2978d9fdc13ec6a47ba20a02f][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, [[https://github.com/jshttp/mime-types][jshttp/mime-types]] and [[https://github.com/broofa/mime][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.