Michael Kaply wrote:

> Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
> > What I was asking:  Is there any way, WITHOUT actually initiating
> > a download, to get Mozilla to display the Mime-Type of the data
> > being pointed to by a selected URL (for instance, if I were to RMB
> > on that URL and then were to choose from among the displayed menu
> > entries) ?
>
> By definition, you don't get the mime type until you start the download,
>   so the answer is no.

Hmm, a user requesting the properties of a URL could cause
the application to run a HEAD request against that URL. This
should give, amongst others, information like this:
Content-Type: image/gif

For Mozilla, this would be feature request.


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Bye/2
Meinolf



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