Hello, I am following the attachement discussion for a while now and came across the following project http://www.freedesktop.org/software/shared-mime-info/ This project has merged a number of mime files and generates an xml file from that info. The format of this file seems at a first glance close to the format currently used with mmbase magic.xml. So it might be possible to use that xml instead of the default mmbase magic.xml which makes it possible for both windows and unix users te use a more recent mime file. And as a added bonus the have also writen a program that makes it easy to update the mime file.
Greetings, Sjoerd de Heer S&R Solutions www.sr-solutions.nl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michiel Meeuwissen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:51 PM Subject: Re: FW: Attachment question > Pierre van Rooden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now, when I upload a Word attachment I get a "Failed to determine > > > filetype" (PDF results in mime-type PDF (which is also incorrect and > > > should be "application/pdf" if I understand Pierre correctly)). > > > > Word is hard to determine. I don't think MMBase currently supports a > > good way to detect Word docs. The PDF-bug is a known bug. We located > > it, it should be fixed in 1.7 or 1.6.4 (maybe Michiel can confirm > > this?). > > The PDF-bug was not the problem of Sandra, because she asserted that the > mime-type was correct. I just spotted it accidentely while exploring the > matterr. Her problem was the behaviour of browsers, which do offer to > 'download' when the content-disposition is 'attachment' which it is > generally for mmbase attachents. For 'pdfs' it could also be 'inline' > because most browsers know how to deal with them. The work around I > suggested it to force using image-servlet for pdf's. I think we should come > up with a better way for this: > > 1. Perhaps content-disposition of attachementservlet must also be 'inline'. > 2. Perhaps it must depend on the mime-type (certian mimetyps can be 'inline' > others 'attachment'. > 3. Perhaps it must be configurable with an attribute on <mm:attachment e.g. > > > > > The problem is in the magic.xml file (a config file in the root > > configuraton directory), which contains directive son how to determine a > > file's type. > > > > This file is not complete, and sometimes contains errors (as with the > > pdf). However you can edit it so it can recognize the documents you want > > to detect. > > The idea for an alternative implementation based on system calls to the > 'file' command has been around for long. I think it would be fairly easy to > implement (especially using the new 'externalprocess' stuff from > org.mmbase.util), and I think it is a good idea to try if this would provide > a more robust magic-detection. > > Michiel > > > -- > Michiel Meeuwissen > Mediapark C101 Hilversum > +31 (0)35 6772979 > nl_NL, eo, en_US > mihxil' > []() >
