[Zope] help with detecting mime_type

[Andreas Jung]

--On 24. Mai 2007 11:31:17 +0100 Alan <alanwilter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dears,
>
> In my external method I can get mime_type =
> file.headers.headers[1].split()[1] and then my code proceed based on
> which mime type was identified for the file uploaded.
>
> What happens now is that a user uploading a tgz file from a Windows
> platform and then my code did not identify it as a
> application/x-gzip-compressed or similar (it gets
> application/octet-stream).
>
> As far as I understood from this case, such mime type info is passed
> by user's system (where Windows usually is not aware of tar.gz, tgz
> etc format) rather than being set by zope server.

AFAIK..all Zope types derived from OFS.File or OFS.Image are using
OFS.contenttypes.guess_content_types()...if the 'content-type' header
isn't available. Otherwise Zope will use it.


-aj
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