On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, St. Laurent, Steven <[email protected]> wrote: > Contrary to comments in the bug stating otherwise it doesn't matter what the > image file extension is, the browser gets the mime type sent to it and it > processes it appropriately. If you go into your db and change the image mime > type (major/minor fields in the image table) to text/plain the browser > doesn't display the image regardless of the filename extension.
Actually, the file extension matters in some cases, but it depends on context. When the URL to the image is included via img tag, most browsers will compensate for an incorrect media type, and display the image regardless of format. When deep linking to a URL (e.g. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/HTTP-Cookie-Google.png ), browsers won't do said compensation anymore. The MIME type will be correctly stored in the database, but the database doesn't get read by the webserver that's actually serving the files. Rob _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
