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Update error messaging to indicate file extension rather than MIME type

Brian Williams requested to merge bwill/mime-type-error into master

What does this MR do and why?

#335278 (closed) received some attention on HackerNews and many users pointed out that the error message does not use correct terminology.

What we are forbidding are file extensions (e.g. .json, .html, .mov, etc.), and these are associated with a MIME type (e.g. application/json, text/html) but are not MIME types themselves.

This MR updates the error message to use file extension rather than MIME type.

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