Stuart Ballard wrote:
> Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but I sent a .nfo file to myself using Mozilla, and Mozilla didn't
>> display it correctly.
>
> Hmm. I don't know how Moz sniffs the mimetype of a file that it's going
> to turn into an attachment. Anyone?
That would be mscott.
>> When I selected 'view source', this showed that the NFO was encoded in
>> some form, it couldn't be directly read in the source.
>
> I suspect that Mozilla assumed it was a binary file and encoded it using
> base64 (look for the word base64, and something like
> "application/octet-stream", in the source).
>
>> If you need more info, let me know. It's possible that the .nfo
>> contained DOS linefeeds (I use Mozilla/Linux), maybe that confused Mozilla.
>
Tillmann, I assume you sent with Mozilla/Linux as well.
> I suspect that Mozilla was trying to guess the MIME type from the file
> extension when it *sent* the mail (when I said it didn't use the
> extension, I meant when it *received* the mail) and failed. Maybe
> someone knows what Moz bases this information on?
