[Zope] Zope and mime types ???

[Florent Guillaume]

> One could use file(1) on *nix systems to analyze file content.
> It shouldn't be too hard to reimplement the needed parts of file(1)
> in python, because afaik it mainly uses the /etc/magic (/usr/lib/magic)
> database to do it's job.
> I just checked, and it is capable of recongnizing word,excel and rtf files,
> and won't be irritated by extensions.

Yes, that's what we use here. At least on Debian and Mandrake systems,
file(1) has a "-i" option that outputs a MIME content-type instead of an
english description. Very convenient.

	-- Florent

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