- From: Tarang Kumar Patel <mombasa@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:24:31 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr
- CC: Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr, www-jigsaw@w3.org
>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:07:35 +0200, Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr> said:
Benoit> Tarang Kumar Patel writes:
>> >> >> Just the one question : >> >> Can one still make use of
>> mime.types file or do I have do facilitate a n >> "indexer" ? >> >>
>> Also, aside the "mime.type" file what of "mailcap" file, which on Unix
>> >> boxes, one uses to configure "Applications/filters" to invoke on a
>> >> encounte ring a specific mime header. >>
>>
Benoit> None of these files are used in Jigsaw. Relation between files and
Benoit> mime types are described in the indexer, and Jigsaw has its own
Benoit> filtering system that doesn't use mailcap file.
>>
Benoit> Benoit - did I understood the question?
>> Yes. Except that if one is generating a "Content" type, say from a
>> cgi-script to stdout, such as : "Content-type: image/x-xbitmap" then
>> how does an indexer help, as the indexer only helps based on file
>> extensio n or directory reference. Nither of these being relevant for
>> the case I poin t out. I mean I uderstand that one has "mime.type" and
>> ".mailcap" files used by the browser to configure the app helpers, but
>> I figure one would w ant the web server configured to support some
>> default app-helpers too.
>>
>> Does this make sense ?
>>
>> Tarang
>>
>>
Benoit> First, the indexer is more than a content-type generator. The
Benoit> indexer specify what kind of resources should be created. In the
Benoit> case of a cgi script the indexer create the FileReource+ CGIFrame
Benoit> but the cgi-script decide which content type it has.
Exactly, so who/what decides Which "helper" application to make available for the given
content type.
Tarang
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