title: Proper MIME media type for TAR files
body: <p>When working with TAR files, I've run across the MIME type</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>application/x-tar</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>However I am not sure it is right, because</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>MIME types in the x- namespace are considered experimental</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>and it seems odd to me for venerable TAR.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any recent RFC about MIME and TAR ?
  And what's about widespread HTTP server and browsers support ?</p>