mime: ignore .js => text/plain in Windows registry

doc/go1.19.html

@@ -216,6 +216,22 @@ <h3 id="minor_library_changes">Minor changes to the library</h3>
   </dd>
 </dl><!-- io -->
 
+<dl id="mime"><dt><a href="/pkg/mime/">mime</a></dt>
+  <dd>
+    <p><!-- CL 406894 -->
+      On Windows only, the mime package now ignores a registry entry
+      recording that the extension <code>.js</code> should have MIME
+      type <code>text/plain</code>. This is a common unintentional
+      misconfiguration on Windows systems. The effect is
+      that <code>.js</code> will have the default MIME
+      type <code>text/javascript; charset=utf-8</code>.
+      Applications that expect <code>text/plain</code> on Windows must
+      now explicitly call
+      <a href="/pkg/mime#AddExtensionType"><code>AddExtensionType</code></a>.
+    </p>
+  </dd>
+</dl>
+
 <dl id="net"><dt><a href="/pkg/net/">net</a></dt>
   <dd>
     <p><!-- CL 386016 -->

src/mime/type_windows.go

@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ func initMimeWindows() {
 		if err != nil {
 			continue
 		}
+
+		// There is a long-standing problem on Windows: the
+		// registry sometimes records that the ".js" extension
+		// should be "text/plain". See issue #32350. While
+		// normally local configuration should override
+		// defaults, this problem is common enough that we
+		// handle it here by ignoring that registry setting.
+		if name == ".js" && (v == "text/plain" || v == "text/plain; charset=utf-8") {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		setExtensionType(name, v)
 	}
 }