RE: [Zope] application/octet-stream vs. application/msword

2000-08-14 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi Dieter all The problem is, currently, not interesting enough for me to analyse is seriously. I can well understand, I wish I could forget about it :( If you know, that you add only "*.doc" files I add .doc, .zip, .exe (self-extracting zip), .pdf and .ppt ... so the quick and dirty

RE: [Zope] application/octet-stream vs. application/msword

2000-08-13 Thread Dieter Maurer
Jean Jordaan writes: The other thing I'm wondering is, it looks as if '.doc' should *always* be recognized as msword. How could it sometimes turn up as octet-stream? To add documents I call: a href="manage_addProduct/ccDoc/ccDocClass_factory" Add a document./a The

RE: [Zope] application/octet-stream vs. application/msword

2000-08-11 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi Dieter all How does Zope recognize the type of a file? It uses "OFS.content_types.guess_content_type" OK, so 'manage_addFile' uses 'guess_content_type'? I'm a bit confused here .. I see three lists of content types, excerpted below. They are in: 1. 'lib/python/OFS/content_types.py'

[Zope] application/octet-stream vs. application/msword

2000-08-10 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi Zopers How does Zope recognize the type of a file? Mostly it recognizes .doc's correctly as 'application/msword', but sometimes they turn up as 'application/octet-stream'. Others, like .fh8 (Freehand) and .exe (self-extracting zip) are (unsurprisingly) also turning up as

Re: [Zope] application/octet-stream vs. application/msword

2000-08-10 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
Jean Jordaan wrote: Hi Zopers How does Zope recognize the type of a file? Mostly it recognizes .doc's correctly as 'application/msword', but sometimes they turn up as 'application/octet-stream'. Others, like .fh8 (Freehand) and .exe (self-extracting zip) are (unsurprisingly) also

Re: [Zope] application/octet-stream vs. application/msword

2000-08-10 Thread Dieter Maurer
Jean Jordaan writes: How does Zope recognize the type of a file? It uses "OFS.content_types.guess_content_type" (look at the source in OFS/Image.py), unless the manage_addFile specifies an explicit "content_type". Can Zope be taught more types? Look at the source of "OFS.content_types".