Re: [flexcoders] Re: FileReference and mimetypes

[Phil Marston]

Thanks Derek, That's the conclusion I was arriving at too. I hate having work around something that should be there, it's like working with MS's non-standards compliance :-( Derek Adams wrote: I had the same problem with mime types.  My solution was to use the file suffix to figure out the content type.  I was using a servlet on the backend, so I just called getServletContext().getMimeType(filename). In your case, you may want to pass the mime type in a separate variable on the URL  and use that to override the content type in the backend processing logic. Something like this:     var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();     vars.sessionId = manager.getSessionId();     vars.contentType = overridingContentType;     uploadRequest = new URLRequest();     uploadRequest.url = ""http://my-upload-processor/upload">http://my-upload-processor/upload";     uploadRequest.data = "">     file.upload(uploadRequest); Hope that helps, Derek --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Geoffrey Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Changing the content type is not supported in uploads. This is > documented in the URLRequest class. > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "pmarstonuoa" p.marston@ > wrote: > > > > Hi Jeff, > > > > I'm having the same problem. According to the Flex2 documentation > the > > content type defaults to "application/octet-stream", but you can > set > > the contentType of the request: > > > > var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("myURL"); > > request.contentType = "image/jpeg"; > > myFileReference.upload(request); > -- ______________________________________________________________ Phil Marston Learning Technologist Learning Technology Unit Edward Wright G33, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44(0)1224 273329 / +44(0)7798 723660 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/ltu/pmarston/ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/ltu/ ______________________________________________________________ The University of Aberdeen Open Day 29th August 2006 Booking is essential www.abdn.ac.uk/openday email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 0800 027 1495 __._,_.___ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___