- From: Dmitry Beransky <dberansky@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:16:24 +0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Ideally, you should rely on the underlying OS to tell you what the mime type of a file is. A Windows OS will use a file's extension and the Registry to figure out the type; a linux/unix os may use the magic number database; MacOS X may use the resource bundle. How to ask the system for this kind of info depends on the language you use. Dmitry At 02:48 PM 11/6/2004, James Cerra wrote: >Now HTML was origionally designed for transport over >the web via HTTP and identification via MIME types. >However, there are cases where (X)HTML may be >transmitted with no MIME type information available. >e.g. Reading a file from a FAT disk or though standard >io. I'm writing a program where this type of >situation may come up. The specs are silent on the >issue, so: What are the recommendations for >identifying the document's type when MIME or HTTP is >not available? > >-- Jimmy Cerra
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