h5bp/html5-boilerplate — Issue #989: RSS MIME types
Author: richardcornish
Created: 2012-02-18 07:41:21+00:00
State: open

It seems you're missing setting the MIME type for RSS feeds in .htaccess. I can't find anything in previous issues about this. I think it's important because when clicking on an RSS link, sometimes the browser tries to automatically download the feed rather than display it, which creates a poor user experience.

# Proper MIME type for all files
AddType application/xml rss
AddType application/xml atom
AddType application/xml xml

I prefer `application/xml` over `application/rss+xml` because the former avoids the issue stated above. Additionally, you can put the same MIME type on XML, which also seems to have been overlooked.