[Zope] png content type woe - solved

Brian Lloyd Brian@digicool.com
Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:12:32 -0400


> Upon your suggestion, I've downloaded & tested with M15 and 
> viola, the correct content type "image/png"!
> 
> The bastard clients are the root of the evil. They are MS 
> I.E. 5.0 Korean version and Netscape 4.51 English version 
> both on Win98 Korean version. 

:^)


> BTW, could you tell me what part of the source that read the 
> content type sent by the client is, if you write from memory 
> instantly? This newbie have not noticed that, and eager to 
> Read the Source.

In lib/python/OFS/Image.py:

The 'manage_upload' method which handles the file upload calls
'self._get_content_type' to find out the content-type. That method
returns the content-type header from the file uploaded if provided,
otherwise it tries to guess.


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