[New-bugs-announce] [issue32021] Brotli encoding is not recognized by mimetypes

[Andrey Klinger]

New submission from Andrey Klinger <andreykl at google.com>:

Brotli (.br) encoding is not recognized by mimetypes module.
mimetypes doesn't have API for adding encodings.
The encoding is supported by most browsers: https://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 306188
nosy: Andrey Klinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Brotli encoding is not recognized by mimetypes
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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