[Zope] Re: Webdav and mimetypes

[Casey Duncan]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:13:07 -0500
Kirk Strauser <kirk at daycos.com> wrote:

> On Monday 26 July 2004 10:52, Fred Drake wrote:
> 
> > Do the names of your scripts have extensions?
> 
> No, they don't.  An example name is "resolveImageIds".  I didn't want
> to use extensions anywhere on the site because I didn't want to, say,
> replace a DTML method with a Python script and have to chose between
> renaming the object or updating 50 other objects throughout the site
> that access it.

How would the client know what mime type to use?

External editor solves this problem by passing metadata from the server,
but OTOH you cannot create new objects through external editor, so it
essentially punts on the "what to create" dilemma.

-Casey