jeff, it's been my experience that the browser cannot be trusted for sending the correct mime type upon upload. firefox (all platforms) has been a particularly bad offender, and i know that IE does some funny stuff, too. (i can't believe it's 2008 and this basic functionality is still broken! on second thought, i can. mime types and file extensions have always been like the wild-west.)
in our recent projects that involve uploading files, we've used mimetype-fu <http://github.com/mattetti/mimetype-fu/> for determining the correct/canonical (as far as mimetype-fu is concerned) mime type to avoid two situations: 1) new/unexpected file types that users upload and 2) consistent mapping of common file types (application/msword vs. application/vnd.ms-word vs. ???) maybe paperclip should be patched to use mimetype-fu. it's pretty inadequate for anything other than basic file types at the moment: # Infer the MIME-type of the file from the extension. def content_type type = (self.path.match(/\.(\w+)$/)[1] rescue "octet-stream").downcase case type when %r"jpe?g" then "image/jpeg" when %r"tiff?" then "image/tiff" when %r"png", "gif", "bmp" then "image/#{type}" when "txt" then "text/plain" when %r"html?" then "text/html" when "csv", "xml", "css", "js" then "text/#{type}" else "application/x-#{type}" end end probably not the answer you're looking for, but hth, -justin On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jeffrey Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally figured out what it was. > > My version of Firefox (Firefox on Kubuntu linux) didn't know the video/x-flv > mime-type so when it uploaded the file it was setting the content type as > application/octet-stream. It appears paperclipped uses the browser mime-type > to determine if the file is allowed to be uploaded or not (I assumed it > checked the file). > > Adding the mime-type to Firefox solved the issue. > > On Kubuntu create a ~/.mime.types file with > > video/x-flv flv > > (The master mime-type file is /etc/mime.types) > > I do not know if this affects windows Firefox or how you would add the > mime-type in windows. > > Cheers > > Jeff > > Jeffrey Jones wrote: >> >> Hoi all. >> >> Has anyone managed to upload flash video files using the paperclipped >> extension? I added video/x-flv to the allowed mime types but the FLVs are >> still getting rejected as not allowed. _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: Radiant@radiantcms.org Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
