[Zope] Missing mime-types

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

I see no use for mime-type files who match file extensions
to mime types in a world without file extensions :)
(let allone wrong file extensions)
If the mime-type definitions allow some code or even simple
pattern matching at the beginning of the files, the use
would be better.
Unfortunately this does not help the somewhat silly mime-type
handling in zope, or Folder, precisely.

Regards
Tino

--On Montag, 9. Juli 2001 09:29 -0600 Casey Duncan <cduncan@kaivo.com> 
wrote:

> Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>> I disagree. The handling of mime-types happens first on the Python level.
>> mimetypes.py comes with four hardcoded locations where it looks for
>> mime.types files (no support for windows). User-defined mime-types
>> should be put into a local mime.types file. The most common mime-types
>> should be part of the mimetypes module and there should be some
>> additional support in the mimetypes module to specify user-defined
>> mime.types file (env.var or any other mechanism). But it makes
>> few sense to maintain the mime-types at at-least three different
>> locations (Zope, Python, local mime.types files).
>>
>
> Actually what I was saying was that there should be two files containing
> all MIME-types and none would be hard-coded. One would come with Zope
> and another could be added by a user if they wanted to support
> additional ones.
>
> However since it seems that support for a list in a file is already
> there (except for Windows), there doesn't seem to be a strong need to
> change things. Perhaps just making it support Windows would help...
>
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