Uploading javascript file under static files

We uploaded the javascript file under static files. By default the mime type is "application/octet-stream". We are accessing this js file in our application however this is not working.
Is this because the mime type is "application/octet-stream"?
Please let us know how to change the mime type to javascript.

Actually, we were having the same problem and determined it to be an IE bug. If we upload the .js file using Firefox, it saves as the correct mime type, x-javascript. If we use IE8, it gets uploaded as octet. Because of this, Firebug did not recognize the file, we got the following error: "the resource from this url is not text: " with the link to the uploaded file. Hence, none of the functions included in the file worked in our application.

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