[Zope] Zope and mime types ???

[Loren Stafford]

Zope stores the mime type that the browser gave it with the uploaded file.
When someone tries to download the file, Zope provides the mime type for it,
regardless of its exetension (Zope doesn't know from extensions) and
regardless of the one that Apache might have provided (Apache doesn't get
involved, Zope's doing the work).

Now if you want to hear something really wierd ...

I've found that if another program on the client machine has the file open
at the time you upload it to Zope (e.g. MS Word has it open because you just
created it), Zope's copy of the file will get the 'application/octet-stream'
type. But, if you close MS Word, then upload it again, this time it will get
the correct type 'application/msword'.

-- Loren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Frank
> Stephan
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 16:53
> To: Mailingliste Zope
> Subject: RE: [Zope] Zope and mime types ???
>
>
>
> > You probably cannot do anything to make sure that you get this MIME type
> > unless you map it yourself at the server.
>
> I understand, that there must be a mapping of the file extension to the
> appropriate
> mime type. I found in the mime.types file of my Apache config that
> there .doc is mapped to application/msword. But why does it still depend
> on the fact, that word is installed on the client or not?
>
> Mime/content types do not really make sense to me that way. Am I wrong
> or is there a way to control this on the server machine?
>
> TIA
> Frank
>
>
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