On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:50:21PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> Re: Mime-types HELP
> Hi,
> I've been forced to research this topic, since Lynx omits any details:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_type
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields
> 
> All browsers do the same thing with mime-types, but in different ways.
> What approach does Lynx use?

you can see part of this in the trace file - the headers include
a line "Accept:" which tells the server what lynx accepts.

After that, in the trace file it refers to building a stream stack,
which is complicated to explain :-(

When it retrieves the data, there's another header which
shows "Content-Type:", whose value corresponds to one of the
mime-types.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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