Problem: Getting Zope to properly detect MIME types of posted files
The current solution is to try the following methods:
1. See if the browser specified a type and if so, use it.
2. See if the file extension can be recognized and derive a mime-type from it
3. Do some inspection of the file data
I agree with solution #2. When I upload a .xls file from Mozilla on
Linux, it also says that it is application/octet-stream.
Even more annoying: Netscape 4.7.x says that it is
"application/vnd.ms-excel", while Konqueror says "application/ms-excel"
for the same file. For sites that want to e
It is possible, as far as i know, to use the unix command "file -bi
" and parse the returned result. It works very fine, but,
unfortunatedly ;^)) just on Unix/Linux/*nix. Have read this on the [Zope]
list and tested myself.
Em Monday 22 October 2001 16:33, Casey Duncan escreveu:
> Problem: G
> It is possible, as far as i know, to use the unix command "file -bi
> " and parse the returned result. It works very fine, but,
> unfortunatedly ;^)) just on Unix/Linux/*nix. Have read this on the [Zope]
> list and tested myself.
This is not quite correct,
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
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