Peter L. Peres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17 Oct 2000, at 19:27:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
>
> >According to Marcel Hicking:
> >> I'm trying to dig local files using a generated start_url
> >> list and local_url.
[...]
> >Yes, the problem is the missing extension. No, there's no
> >config attribute you can set to assign a default mime type
> >to files with no extension. Yes, there is a workaround,
> >which would be to change the RetrieveLocal() method in
> >htdig/Document.cc to handle this case and assign the type
> >you want. We don't do this in the distributed source
> >because there isn't universal agreement on what mime type
> >these files should have, and we haven't worked out a
> >better, more configurable scheme for this code yet.
>
> In other words, if I'd make a patch to allow extension-less
> files to be indexed (first remote, then maybe also local),
> then it would be rather welcome ? Especially since I need it
> myself ;-)
It surely will. Although I would prefer having first local
than remote files checked, at least if I use local_urls.
Fallback to remote checking is done anyway, and usually the
httpd delivers a mimetype even for files without
extensions.
I could imaging two different ways of solving the problem
in a more general way:
The first would be having an apache like mime.types, as
this is a well proven feature. Maybe call it mime.local and
add keywords for unkown/default types/extensions as well as
special mimetype to force htdig get the type via http.
Say:
text/css css
text/html html htm
text/plain txt
text/richtext rtf
text/plain (none)
(http) php3
(http) (other)
Since we have some nice regex parsing for config files why
not use them here as well and extend it to the full
filename?
A different idea would be to have a local_mimetype keyword
similar to local_urls:
local_mimetype txt=text/plain \
htm*=text/html \
php*=(http) \
(none)=text/plain
Might be easier to use the existing config parser this way.
Just some quick thoughts accompanying my first coffee for
today...
Regards, Marcel
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