[Zope] Wrong mime type sent by Zope on every page

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Thu, 08 Jun 2000 23:02:26 +0100


Brian Lloyd wrote:
> What if we change this to:
> 
>   if a 'content_type' attribute exists, it is used
> 
>   else if the object's id seems to have a file extension
>           (. in the id), try to use guess_content_type
> 
> >  else if there is a 'default_content_type' attribute, use that

It would be cool if this could be acquired :-)

> 
>   else fall back to the hated application/octet-stream
>        (or, I've seen x-unknown-content-type used before,
>         but I don't know if this is really any better).
> 
> Then we could put a 'default_content_type' attribute in the
> class of dtml documents and methods, which would take care of
> the most common case. Thoughts?

Looks great otherwise :-)

Chris