RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types

[Danny Ayers]

Thanks, but this doesn't appear to make any difference - my guess is that
the mime type in the http header is taking precedence.

I tried adding :

GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP:/usr/share/mime.types

to lynx.cfg

and in

/usr/share/mime.types

I've got

text/html svg xml

but when I point to a file with the extension .svg (which my server's saying
is image/svg+xml) I still get the D)ownload or C)ancel options.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Danny.

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Danny Ayers
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
>Thomas Dickey
>Sent: 22 March 2002 19:15
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types
>
>
>On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:39:23PM +0100, Danny Ayers wrote:
>>
>> >who's rob partington?  i know thomas dickey all right, but that guy??
>>
>> A quick search of the list archives shows a lot of posts from
>Rob Partington
>> around 1995-96 time, so I guess he was active in the development then.
>>
>> How do you override mime types?
>
>not having been down that way, I spent a few minutes and grep'd through
>the source - from src/HTInit.c where most of the MIME stuff is mapped,
>I see a pointer to something called "personal_extension_map", which
>is read from lynx.cfg:
>
>.h2 GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP
>.h2 PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP
># The global and personal EXTENSION_MAP files allow you to assign
>extensions
># to MIME types which will override any of the suffix maps in this
>(lynx.cfg)
># configuration file, or in src/HTInit.c.  See the example mime.types file
># in the samples subdirectory.
>#
># Unix:
># ====
>#GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP:/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mime.types
># VMS:
># ===
>#GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP:Lynx_Dir:mime.types
>#
>#      Unix (sought in user's home directory):
>#PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:.mime.types
>#      VMS (sought in user's sys$login directory):
>#PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP:mime.types
>
>
>--
>Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
>http://invisible-island.net
>ftp://invisible-island.net
>
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