Re: [flexcoders] Re: FileReference and mimetypes

[Phil Marston]

Tom Chiverton wrote: On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:29, Phil Marston wrote: Well - it's a thought (that I hadn't had ;-) ) seems a wasteful exercise to have to go through The only other way is to, as others have suggested, perform your own (or O/Ss) MIME sniff, and then send the matching headers. Well that's what I'm going to have to do by the looks of it - though less of a sniff and more of an assumption/guess based on convention - just because a file name ends in *.xyz doesn't necessarily mean it's a xyz file - then you have things like those jpe files that have started appearing (where do they come from?!), they're jpegs but someone has decided to use a different naming convention to the one that currently exists!  It means I have to keep an eye on the assumptions, because I can't rely on naive users (nor should I). Ho hum -- ______________________________________________________________ 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 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. __,_._,___