Hello Guile hackers, Recently I've taken to writing simple web servers in Guile. Each time I write one I wish that core Guile came with a procedure to guess the mime type of a file. Such a procedure would be very useful when serving arbitrary static files from disk.
However, I can't figure out the best way to implement it. Here are 3 possible ways of guessing a MIME type: 1) Use a lookup table that maps file extensions to MIME types. This is the simplest method as it would only test file extensions. Python does this, see: <https://docs.python.org/2/library/mimetypes.html> 2) Use pipes to read the output of the 'file' utility. The guessing will be more accurate because 'file' inspects a file's contents to make better guesses. 3) Use the FFI to call libmagic. Same benefits as above, but better because we can use the FFI instead of subprocesses and pipes. 2 and 3 both have the disadvantage of requiring an additional dependency, which seems hard to justify for such a minor feature. I wrote a simple static file server (inspired by Python's SimpleHTTPServer) that I would like to contribute once this blocker is resolved. Thoughts? Would this be useful at all? Thanks, -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
