How to configure nginx for JBoss?

Why would one configure nginx to use the following directive: "default_type application/octet-stream;"?

  • # fallback in case we can't determine a type   default_type application/octet-stream; The above was taken from the gunicorn website. Why wouldn't I set a default type to text/html?

  • Answer:

    Seems that as per the "fallback" comment, the intention is that "text/html" is almost certainly going to have been covered in mime.types/other config - along with other "standard" types - and that if you're getting to this point, then it's probably some generically "binary" file type that there might not be a mapping for anyway.

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