> 
> This is an HTTP question (the protocol, not HTML the document format).

Yes this is what I meant but the mail was sent.

> And you solved your problem well, I never tried it like that myself ;-)
> 
> I would not write it differently.
> 
> Like the comment says, it will only work with those types recognised by 
> ImageReadWriter, which are the most common ones, JPG, GIF and PNG.
> 
> Image/* is a wildcard matching any image type, and there are many, many more. 
> 
> The current mechanism in Zinc with #accept: and #enforceAcceptContentType: 
> true assumes a singular 'Accept' header. But indeed, technically, it is 
> possible to specify more than one.
> 
> For example, this also works:
> 
> ZnClient new
>  url: 'http://pharo.org/files/pharo.png <http://pharo.org/files/pharo.png>';
>  headerAt: 'Accept' add: ZnMimeType imageGif asString;
>  headerAt: 'Accept' add: ZnMimeType imagePng asString;
>  headerAt: 'Accept' add: ZnMimeType imageJpeg asString;
>  contentReader: [ :entity | ImageReadWriter formFromStream: entity readStream 
> ];
>  get.


Ah this would be better for me because like that I can probably control which 
exception is raised.
Because we do not support image/svg

> But I have to think a bit about this issue.
> 
> Another approach is to use the extension of the URL.
> 
> ZnMimeType forFilenameExtension: 'http://pharo.org/files/pharo.png 
> <http://pharo.org/files/pharo.png>' asUrl file asFileReference extension.
> 
> It all depends at what level you want to tell your user they tried getting an 
> unsupported file type.

Broad :) but soon you will be my user and you will have the right to complain :)


> 
> Sven
> 
>> S.
>> 
>> 
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03 59 35 87 52
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FAX 03 59 57 78 50
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